What is the difference between absentee and absent?
absentee | absent |
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:
One that is nonexistent or lacking.
A voter that is not present at the time of voting; absentee voter.
(not comparable) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present; missing.
* 1623 , (William Shakespeare), All’s Well That Ends Well, II-iii
(not comparable) Not existing; lacking.
(sometimes, comparable) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied.
* 1746-1747 , Chesterfield, Letters to his Son
(legal) In the absence of; without.
* 1919 , State vs. Britt, Supreme Court of Missouri, Division 2, in The Southwestern Reporter , page 427
* 2011 , David Elstein, letter, London Review of Books , XXXIII.15:
(transitive, now, reflexive) Keep away; stay away; go away.
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* 1701-1703 , , "Remarks on Italy"
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(obsolete) Stay away; withdraw.
(rare) Leave.
English heteronyms
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Absent is a related term of absentee.
As nouns the difference between absentee and absent
is that absentee is a person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc while absent is absentee; a person who is away on occasion.As adjectives the difference between absentee and absent
is that absentee is pertaining to one that is absent while absent is being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present; missing.As a preposition absent is
in the absence of; without.As a verb absent is
keep away; stay away; go away.absentee
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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 !
References
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Alternative forms
*Etymology 1
* From (etyl) absent, (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- Expecting absent friends.
- The part was rudimental or absent .
- What is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man.
Antonyms
* presentPreposition
(English prepositions)- If the accused refuse upon demand to pay money or deliver property (absent any excuse or excusing circumstance) which came into his hands as a bailee, such refusal might well constitute some evidence of conversion, with the requisite fraudulent intent required by the statute.
- the Princess Caroline case [...] established that – absent a measurable ‘public interest’ in publication – she was safe from being photographed while out shopping.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) absenter, from .Verb
(en verb)- Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more;
- If after due summons any member absents himself, he is to be fined.
- This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
