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Definition of Absentee
1. Noun. One that is absent or not in residence.
Specialized synonyms: Awol, Defaulter, Exile, Expat, Expatriate, Hooky Player, Truant
Derivative terms: Absent
Definition of Absentee
1. n. One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee.
Definition of Absentee
1. Noun. A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc. ¹
2. Noun. (context: chiefly British historical) A landholder who lives in another district or country than the one in which his estate is situated. ¹
3. Noun. One that is nonextistent or lacking. ¹
4. Adjective. Pertaining to one that is absent. ¹
5. Adjective. Not in residence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Absentee
1. one that is not present [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Absentee
Literary usage of Absentee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Civil Law in Spain and Spanish-America: Including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and by Clifford Stevens Walton, Spain (1900)
"The wife of the absentee, if of age, can freely dispose of any property ...
When the administration belongs to the children of the- absentee and they are ..."
2. Translation of the Civil Code in Force in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines by Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Spain (1899)
"Administration of the property of an absentee. ART. 187. ... The wife of the
absentee, if of age, may freely dispose of the property of any kind whatsoever ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law and Procedure of Receivers: With Forms; Being a by Henry Gabriel Tardy, John Wilson Smith (1920)
"... it follows that the state may establish legal presumptions as part of such
rules.2 A statute authorizing the placing of the property of an absentee ..."
4. Indian Land Laws: Being a Treatise on Indianland Titles in Oklahoma and by Samuel Thomas Bledsoe (1913)
"absentee Shawnee and Citizen Pottawatomie.— Agreements for the allotment of the
reservations of the absentee Shawnees and Citizen ..."
5. The Civil Code of the Province of Quebec, Annotated, Containing the French by Québec (Province), Jean Joseph Beauchamp (1904)
"3 Pand. the recovery of inheritances and of other rights, which actions belong
to- the absentee, his heirs and legal representatives, ..."
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