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Absentee - What does it mean?

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absentee

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc.
  • (chiefly, British, historical) A landholder who lives in another district or country than the one in which his estate is situated.
  • * 1840 , , "Letter 374: to Mr. Moore (24 May 1820)," in The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life , John Murray (London), page 317:
    • My trustees are going to lend Earl Blessington sixty thousand pounds (at six per cent.) on a Dublin mortgage. Only think of my becoming an Irish absentee !
  • One that is nonexistent or lacking.
  • A voter that is not present at the time of voting; absentee voter.

    • Related terms

    * absenteeism

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (attributive) Pertaining to one that is absent.

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