Absentee vs Absentees - What's the difference?
absentee | absentees |
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.
As nouns the difference between absentee and absentees
is that absentee is a person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc while absentees is plural of lang=en.As an adjective absentee
is pertaining to one that is absent.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 !