ABSENTEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does absentee mean? 

• ABSENTEE (noun)
  The noun ABSENTEE has 1 sense:

1. one that is absent or not in residence

  Familiarity information: ABSENTEE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABSENTEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One that is absent or not in residence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("absentee" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "absentee"):

AWOL (one who is away or absent without leave)

defaulter (someone who fails to make a required appearance in court)

exile; expat; expatriate (a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country)

hooky player; truant (one who is absent from school without permission)

Derivation:

absent (go away or leave)

 Context examples 

Hunter was obviously under the influence of some powerful drug, and as no sense could be got out of him, he was left to sleep it off while the two lads and the two women ran out in search of the absentees.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)