Absentee vs Absenter - What's the difference?
absentee | absenter |
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 absenter
is that absentee is a person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc while absenter is one who absents one's self.As adjectives the difference between absentee and absenter
is that absentee is pertaining to one that is absent while absenter is comparative of 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 !