absenteeism
absentee
adverb
uk /ˌæb.sənˈtiː/ us /ˌæb.sənˈtiː/
 vote absenteeUS
to send your vote by post or by using the internet when you cannot be present to vote at an election:
We are working to make it easier for military members to vote absentee when they are deployed overseas.

absentee | American Dictionary

absentee
noun[ C ]
us/ˌæb·sənˈti/
someone who is absent

absentee | Business English

absentee
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌæbsənˈtiː/us
HR
someone who is not at work or at the place where they are supposed to be:
There are lots of absentees at the moment because of illness.
The CEO was a notable absentee from the meeting.

Examples of absentee

absentee
Though he still exercised some of the influence appropriate to his status, he was an absentee lord lieutenant.
By the late seventeenth century, these absentee planters already engaged in lobbying activities.
Such workers often have high absentee and turnover rates, and their performances may be otherwise easily disrupted.
There were 44 absentees, leaving a total of 935 people who actually cast their votes.
Of the 1,205 collected 936 (77.8 per cent) were valid votes, 158 (13 per cent) invalid and 111 (9.2 per cent) absentees.
In rare cases, where necessary, they took pains to explain absentees.
Some landowners were, of course, absentees, and would not therefore attend.
The remaining 11 were 10 absentees and 1 individual who refused but was not suspected of defective colour vision.
Of the remaining five, four were persistent absentees who could not be traced, and one refused.
Of the remaining eighteen, one refused to be tested, and seventeen were persistent absentees.
Absentee smallholders are of such groups as minor bureaucrats, petty merchants, and schoolteachers.
This suggested that the content of the current programme complemented the skills required, with skills in communication being the only notable absentee.
This created a large number of absentee landowners.
Furthermore, it is common for the verb with an absentee direct object to be one which, in other contexts, obligatorily has a direct object.
The criteria for listing were : multiple ownership, absentee ownership, derelict or underutilised, farm borders a communal area.
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