absenteeismn.
/ˌabs(ə)nˈtiːɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌæbsənˈtiˌɪz(ə)m/ 1. The practice of being an absentee; the practice of residing away from one's home, country, property, or place of work (esp. with reference to landowners or the clergy). See absentee n. 1.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [noun] > with temporary accommodation > practice of landlords living away or abroad
absenteeship1777
absenteeism1821
1821 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 8 Nov. 4/4 An act to check or counteract the evil of Absenteeism.
1829 Westm. Rev. Jan. 240 The only permanent effect of any given quantity of absenteeism, is to make Ireland a smaller Ireland.
1877 D. M. Wallace Russia vii. 109 The prevailing absenteeism among the landlords.
1879 C. M. Yonge Cameos 4th Ser. iii. 34 There was a talk of forbidding absenteeism of clergy from their benefices.
1903 Edinb. Rev. July 209 Absenteeism with its resulting evils of middlemen and rackrents was the worst bane of Ireland.
1936 W. M. Macmillan Warning from West Indies iii. 75 It is hard to judge the actual extent or importance of absenteeism. Barbados lately is said to have had only seven absent landlords out of a total of 294.
1965 L. Stone Crisis of Aristocracy i. v. 129 The influence of the nobles over client gentry and tenantry was being weakened by their increasing absenteeism due to attendance at Court.
2001 J. J. Spielvogel & W. J. Duiker World Hist. II. iii. 428 This practice of pluralism (the holding of many church offices) led, in turn, to the problem of absenteeism.
2. The persistent habit of absenting oneself (from work, church, school, etc.); truancy.
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society > occupation and work > lack of work > [noun] > repeated absence of employees
absenteeism1850
society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > difficult or unwilling pupil or student > absenteeism
absenteeism1957
1850 Southern Literary Messenger July 401 An agreeable contrast to the habits of absenteeism of our American domestics.
1871 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 34 429 To make a further deduction (20 per cent) for absenteeism.
1912 Messages Men & Relig. Movement VII. 82 Absenteeism from the ballot-box and absenteeism from church are kindred failures in duty to society.
1922 Managem. Engineering Feb. 89/1 During the war, although orders greatly exceeded production, absenteeism increased.
1957 Oxf. Mail 25 Sept. 1/9 Schools in Oxford City have so far been unaffected, and it was stated today that there is no undue absenteeism for this time of year.
1977 Daily Tel. 24 Nov. 8/6 A Labour-controlled council is to crack down on ‘skivers’ following a report which alleges large scale absenteeism.
2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 July iv. 10/5 The deworming drugs decreased school absenteeism by a quarter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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