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absent without leave
absent without leave n. U.S. Military (a) an offence or charge of being absent without leave; (b) a person who is absent without leave; = AWOL n. 2.
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1915 C. C. Waddell Girl of Guard Line vii. 90 A tool of the gang, as you call me, would hardly be down in this luxurious little coalhole, staring an ‘absent without leave’ in the face.
1919 Cent. Mag. Nov. 4/1 Most of the fellows in here are just plain drunks or awols. Awols? Why, absent without leaves.
1978 Kokomo (Indiana) Tribune 27 Sept. 17/2 He has a couple of ‘absent without leaves’ in his past.
1979 Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, Va.) 23 Aug. 20/5 We are 90 percent positive that they were absent without leaves from the U.S. Army.
1990 H. E. Russell & A. Beigel Understanding Human Behavior for Effective Police Work (ed. 3) xvi. 256 In this group, there was a higher frequency of absent without leaves and other disciplinary problems.
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absent without leave
a. Chiefly Military. absent without leave: away from a post, place of work, etc., without authorization (abbreviated AWOL). Also as an attributive phrase, forming compounds as absent without leave charge, absent without leave status, etc.
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1658 W. Prynne Plea for Lords 372 A fine was assessed by the House on every Member that was absent without leave.
1743 H. Bland Abstr. Mil. Discipline (1969) iii. 31 Whenever the Regiment is drawn out, no Officer must be absent without Leave.
1797 Ld. Nelson 29 Mar. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) III. 7 Five or six men absent without leave, who can not be ‘Run’ on the Ship's books, not having been absent three musters.
1832 Times 16 Jan. 2/1 The Chamber of Representatives met yesterday, when it appeared that there were 39 members absent without leave, and only 51 present.
1889 MacMillan's Mag. Dec. 154/1 I shall have to give him twenty-eight days' confinement at least for being absent without leave.
1918 Red Cross Bull. 28 Oct. 9/3 (heading) Home Service workers to aid Army in solution of the absent-without-leave problem.
1956 M. Dickens Angel in Corner viii. 128 They wouldn't let him go to see her, so he went absent without leave, and of course that lost him his chance.
1973 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 13 July 17 She said her husband, since being put on absent-without-leave status from his Omaha job, has spent his days doing some legal work.
1993 Army Lawyer Oct. 22 The accused's defense to an absent without leave charge (AWOL) that he suffered from amnesia during the absent period.
2007 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 20 Aug. 3 Around 1,200 military personnel remain on the run after deserting over the last 10 years. Most are male soldiers who have gone absent without leave for family reasons.
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