drop-add

1. (Education)

a. the period at the beginning of a term when students can sign up for new courses and drop courses for which they were previously registered

b. (as modifier): the drop-add period.

2. (Education) (as modifier): the drop-add period.

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

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Administrators can access all classes, and districts can update the database as students go through drop-add or change schools within the district.

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Brett Thompson, Monroe's director of network systems & applications development, explains that the Exchangebased system automatically creates student e-mail distribution lists for the school's more than 5,000 sections, with drop-add and other changes made automatically each evening.

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I had forgotten that the drop-add ritual is common with students.

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