An absentee is a person who is expected to be in a particular place but who is not there.
Synonyms: nonattender, stay-at-home, truant, no-show More Synonyms of absentee
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
Absentee is used to describe someone who is not there to do a particular job in person.
Absentee fathers will be forced to pay child maintenance.
...an absentee landlord.
3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
In elections in the United States, if you vote by absentee ballot or if you are an absentee voter, you vote in advance because you will be away.
[US]
He has already voted by absentee ballot.
The deadline for absentee voting in Louisiana was Saturday.
absentee in British English
(ˌæbsənˈtiː)
noun
a.
a person who is absent
b.
(as modifier)
an absentee voter
absentee in American English
(ˌæbsənˈti)
noun
1.
a person who is absent, as from work, school, etc.
adjective
2.
designating or of a landlord or owner whose personal residence is distant from any other property owned, esp. from such property rented to another
Examples of 'absentee' in a sentence
absentee
For this important task the absentee owners turned to imperialism.
Hunt, E. K. Property and Prophets: The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies (1995)
Her family helped her to obtain an absentee ballot.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Notable absentees also include footballers and rugby players.
The Sun (2011)
For many years he must have been an absentee father.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
An absentee owner and a club for sale.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It is intended to oblige shareholders to engage with the companies they own and act less like absentee landlords.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
There were two notable absentees yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
You can't be an absentee landlord.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
He didn't have an absentee father.
Christianity Today (2000)
The Danes were mainly absentee owners on sugar plantations.
Sanderson, Stephen K. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies (1995)
You're up against an absentee landlord.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
An absentee father and husband, he had none of the usual trappings of normality.
Richard Bath Notorious: The Maddest and Baddest Sportsmen on the Planet (2006)
Many more are owned by absentee English landlords.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Many of the buildings are empty, owned by absentee landlords who have for years left the council to do repairs.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
But the campaigners claim most of the money will go to absentee owners to help them reopen their gardens rather than rescue the workers from starvation.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
There was one notable absentee.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Local governments will no longer have to provide absentee ballots in elections, nor run programmes to help infants exposed to drugs.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The folly and its two acres were sold to an absentee landlord, who may have bought the woodland property to avoid death duties.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In fact, just about the only significant absentee owner who spreads horses around is McManus.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Permanent Secretaries become absentee landlords.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The absentee owner has hardly been seen at Stamford Bridge this season as the wheels have come off for his struggling team.
The Sun (2013)
In other languages
absentee
British English: absentee NOUN
An absentee is a person who is expected to be in a particular place but who is not there.
American English: absentee
Brazilian Portuguese: ausente
Chinese: 缺席者
European Spanish: ausente
French: absent
German: Abwesende
Italian: assente
Japanese: 欠席者
Korean: 결석자
European Portuguese: ausente
Latin American Spanish: ausente
British English: absentee ADJECTIVE
Absentee is used to describe someone who is not there to do a particular job in person.
Absentee fathers will be forced to pay child maintenance.
American English: absentee
Brazilian Portuguese: ausente
Chinese: 缺席的
European Spanish: ausente
French: absent
German: entfernt lebend
Italian: assente
Japanese: 欠席者の
Korean: 결석한
European Portuguese: ausente
Latin American Spanish: ausente
All related terms of 'absentee'
absentee rate
the percentage of people who are absent each day from a school or company
absentee vote
a vote cast in advance by a voter who will be unable to go to the polling place on polling day
absentee ballot
a ballot in which votes are cast in advance because voters are unable to go to the polling place
absentee voter
a voter who votes in advance because of being unable to go to the polling place.
absentee voting
voting in advance by voters who cannot get to the polling place on polling day
absentee landlord
a landlord who does not live in or near a property from which he or she draws an income
Chinese translation of 'absentee'
absentee
(æbsənˈtiː)
n(c)
缺席者 (quēxízhě) (名, míng)
(noun)
Definition
a person who should be present but is not
There are several notable absentees from Saturday's race.
Synonyms
nonattender
stay-at-home
truant
She became a truant at the age of eighteen.
no-show
stayaway
Additional synonyms
in the sense of truant
Definition
a pupil who stays away from school without permission