Absentee

Definition: Absentee

Absentee

Noun

1. One that is absent or not in residence.

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Date "absentee" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Satire

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Absence

Ruant, absentee.

Crosswords: Absentee

The Absentee (1915)

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Books

• Absentee (reference)

• Absentee Entrepreneurship and the Dynamics of the Motor Vehicle Industry in Argentina (reference)

• Absentee Indians & Other Poems (Native American Series) (reference)

• Absentee Mothers (reference)

• Absentee Ownership (reference)

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Periodicals

• Absentee Shawnee News (reference)

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Defense Secretary William Cohen asked the Defense Department inspector general to look into problems concerning military absentee balloting. Cohen ordered the inquiry following reports that many absentee ballots from service members were not counted becau.

Tanforan (Calif.) Assembly Center -- Evacuees who were citizens retained right to vote--Photo shows City Clerk Ralph E. Woodman of San Bruno, California, municipality nearest to Center, accepting absentee ballots for State election from evacuees. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sylvester Garring, thirty-one year old tenant of an absentee landlord, chopping wood. Near Fowler, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Aldrich, tenant farmers on farm owned by an absentee landlord near Ruthven, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hog house erected by tenant Al Richards on farm owned by absentee owner. Three hundred twelve acres near Wallingford, Iowa. Buildings on farm were insufficient for hog raising so he built this himself. Credit: Library of Congress.

Chicken house (center) erected by tenant Al Richards on farm owned by absentee owner. Near Wallingford, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress.

Farm buildings on Al Richards Farm near Wallingford, Iowa. This farm is owned by an absentee owner. Credit: Library of Congress.

August Feck and a load of soybean hay. Feck's three hundred tewnty acre farm near Templeton, Indiana, is owned by an absentee landlord who lives in Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

Abandoned citrus grove near Weslaco, Texas. Note the great amount of underbrush. There are several of these abandoned groves in this section, due to lack of finances for cultivation and irrigation. There is also much absentee ownership in the citrus indus. Credit: Library of Congress.

Easy does it : absentee voting and registration procedures by state. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Civil Liberties

Fiji

The annual general meeting of the Methodist Church in Suva in August coincided with the national elections; some 25,000 Methodists cast absentee ballots. (references)

Economic History

Costa Rica

This is especially true for absentee owners of undeveloped or vacant rural properties, as Costa Rican agrarian law is relatively quick to confer title to occupants of land considered "abandoned". (references)

Sao Tome and Principe

The rich volcanic soils proved well suited to the new cash crop industry, and soon extensive plantations (rocas), owned by Portuguese companies or absentee landlords, occupied almost all of the good farmland. (references)

Political Economy

Philippines

The estimated 7.4 million citizens living abroad remain effectively disenfranchised because the Government has not enacted a system of absentee voting, as required by the Constitution. (references)

Political Rights

Japan

In 1999 the Diet extended these absentee voting privileges to fishermen and mariners. (references)

Malaysia

Opposition parties continued to call for monitoring of absentee votes by party agents. (references)

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Expressions using "absentee": absentee ballot ♦ absentee landlord ♦ absentee rate ♦ absentee vote ♦ absentee voter. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afwesige (absenter). (various references)

Albanian

abstenonjës (absenter), mungestar. (various references)

Arabic 

‏المتغيب, ‏المالك (owner, proprietary, proprietor), ‏الغائب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

отсъствуващ (absent, missing). (various references)

Chinese 

缺席者. (various references)

Czech

absentér, nepřítomná osoba. (various references)

Dutch

afwezige (absenter). (various references)

Esperanto

forestanto. (various references)

French

absentéiste (absent), absent (absent). (various references)

German

Abwesende (absentees). (various references)

Greek 

απών (absent, away, missing), απουσιάζων. (various references)

Hawaiian

abstenonjës (absenter). (various references)

Hebrew 

� פק�" (absent, counted, depositee, enumerated, missing), � ע�"ר (absent, lacking, missing). (various references)

Hungarian

rendszeresen távol maradó, hiányzó (absent, lacking, missing, unaccounted, wanting). (various references)

Italian

assente (absent, blank, faraway). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� 勤者 , � 席者 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

けっき�"しゃ, けっせきしゃ. (various references)

Korean 

결석자. (various references)

Manx

neuaaragh (absent, abstentionist), assaaragh (absent). (various references)

Pig Latin

absenteeay.(various references)

Portuguese

absentista (non-resident). (various references)

Romanian

absenteist, absent (absent, absent minded, absently, absent-mindedly, abstracted, abstractedly, away, far away, gone, missing, omitted, out). (various references)

Russian 

отсутствующий отсутствующий, отсутствующий (absent, absentees, missing), прогулявший. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

osoba koja je odsutna, odsutni. (various references)

Spanish

ausente (absent, absented, missing, no show, out, truant). (various references)

Swedish

frånvarande (absent, absent minded, absently, dreamy, far off, faraway, preoccupied). (various references)

Turkish

gelmeyen kimse, görevi başında bulunmayan kimse, devamsız kimse, devamsız (discontinuous, impermanent), başka bir ülkede oturan mal sahibi. (various references)

Ukrainian

відсутній (absent, lacking, missing, non-available, null, unavailable, wanting), прогульник (hookey, truant, wag). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người vắng mặt, người đi vắng. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "absentee": absenteeism, absenteeisms, absentees. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Absentee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Absa'tze, absente, absenti, absinity, aksunite, basanite. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: absent, beaten, enates, sateen, senate.

-3 letters: abets, antes, banes, baste, bates, beans, beast, beats, beets, benes, bents, beset, betas, eaten, enate, etnas, nabes, nates, neats, sente, setae, stane, tabes, tease, teens, tense.

-4 letters: abet, anes, ante, ants, ates, bane, bans, base, bast, bate, bats, bean, beat, been, bees, beet, bene, bens, bent, best.

+1 letter: absentees.

+2 letters: debasement.

+3 letters: absenteeism, bannerettes, belatedness, debasements, debatements, presentable, tenableness.

+4 letters: abjectnesses, absenteeisms, basementless, benefactress, beneficiates, bereavements, embracements, enjambements, enterobiases, oblatenesses, sedimentable, stablenesses.

+5 letters: beastlinesses, beauteousness, bedazzlements, belatednesses, betweenbrains, bicentenaries, breathinesses, concelebrates, elaborateness, embattlements, equitableness, estimableness, excitableness, invertebrates, notablenesses, potablenesses, representable, teachableness, tenablenesses, tunablenesses, unrespectable, veritableness.