Absentee vs Truancy - What's the difference?
absentee | truancy |
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.
The act of shirking from responsibilities and duties – refers especially to school absentees.
As nouns the difference between absentee and truancy
is that absentee is a person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc while truancy is the act of shirking from responsibilities and duties – refers especially to school absentees.As a adjective absentee
is (attributive) 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 !
