"absentee" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌæb.sn̩ˈti/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-absentee.wav Forms: absentees [plural]
Rhymes: -iː Etymology: From absent + -ee. Etymology templates: {{af|en|absent|-ee}} absent + -ee Head templates: {{en-noun}} absentee (plural absentees)
  1. A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc.
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  2. A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc.
    (attributive) Designating a person absent in a particular capacity, sometimes implying that they are difficult to contact, unresponsive, avoiding their responsibilities, etc.
    Tags: attributive
    Sense id: en-absentee-en-noun-TYES-j8o Categories (other): English terms with collocations
  3. A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc.
    (law) A person who is absent from their residence and usual environment, and has not been seen or heard from for some period of time, so that it is unknown whether they are still alive, for the purpose of civil law dealing with the management of property etc. in such cases.
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  4. Something that is not present where it might be expected.
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  5. (attributive) Designating something whose owner, person responsible, etc. is absent. Tags: attributive
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  6. (chiefly British, historical) A landholder who lives in another district or country than the one in which his estate is situated. Tags: British, historical
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  7. A voter who is not present at the time of voting; absentee voter.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: absentee ballot, absenteeist, absentee ownership, absenteeship, absentee vote, absentee voting, presentee Related terms: absenteeism Translations (landholder who doesn't live where his estate is): absentista [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese) Translations (one that is nonexistent or lacking): poissaoleva (Finnish) Translations (person who is absent): ausente (Campidanese Sardinian), stesiau (Campidanese Sardinian), afwezige (Dutch), poissaoleva (Finnish), absent [masculine] (French), assenti (Gallurese), Abwesender [masculine] (German), Abwesende [feminine] (German), απών (apón) [masculine] (Greek), assente (Italian), kaitakē (Maori), ausente [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), faltoso [masculine] (Portuguese), отсу́тствующий (otsútstvujuščij) [masculine] (Russian), ausente (Sardinian), assenti (Sassarese), ausente [feminine, masculine] (Spanish)
Disambiguation of "landholder who doesn't live where his estate is": 10 10 19 8 6 25 22 Disambiguation of 'one that is nonexistent or lacking': 15 15 19 8 16 18 9 Disambiguation of 'person who is absent': 24 24 24 1 16 6 7

Inflected forms

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