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Definitions for absentee
ˌæb sənˈtiab·sen·tee

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. absenteenoun

    one that is absent or not in residence

Wiktionary

  1. absenteenoun

    A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc.

  2. absenteenoun

    A landholder who lives in another district or country than the one in which his estate is situated.

  3. absenteenoun

    One that is nonextistent or lacking.

  4. absenteeadjective

    Pertaining to one that is absent.

  5. absenteeadjective

    Not in residence.

  6. Etymology: * First attested in 1537.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Absenteenoun

    He that is absent from his station or employment, or country. A word used commonly with regard to Irishmen living out of their country.

    Then was the first statute made against absentees, commanding all such as had land in Ireland, to return and reside thereupon. John Davies, on Ireland.

    A great part of estates in Ireland are owned by absentees, and such as draw over the profits raised out of Ireland, refunding nothing. Josiah Child, Discourse on Trade.

ChatGPT

  1. absentee

    An absentee is an individual who is expected, due or supposed to be somewhere (like a meeting, event, school, or a vote) but does not attend or is missing. This term also refers to a person who owns a business or property but does not live in that area or attend to the day-to-day operations personally.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Absenteenoun

    one who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee

Wikidata

  1. Absentee

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of absentee in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of absentee in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of absentee in a Sentence

  1. Frank LaRose:

    Sending the request – not the ballot – helps voters participate in the election and means each registered voter in Ohio can continue to choose one of three options available to them – early voting, absentee voting by mail, or voting in person on Election Day.

  2. Jeffrey Smith:

    He gets workers to go get people to sign up on a sheet of paper for an absentee ballot, say you live in a Section 8 housing area, they will collect these requests. Leslie McCrae Dowless says you don't have to leave your house, you can just vote at home.

  3. State Office:

    We’re on track to break records in terms of voter turnout in every category, in 2018, 223,576 Georgians voted by mail for Governor. So far this year, we’ve received 239,789 requests for absentee ballots, 238,356 have been mailed out. We’ll exceed 2018’s total for mailed-in ballots. So far we’ve been breaking the early vote record set in 2018, and we’re approaching the early vote numbers in 2020.

  4. Elections Mike Bennett:

    Mugshot for Larry Wiggins, 62,( Manatee County Sheriff's Office) RETURN TO SENDER : DC VOTERS ARE BEING SENT MAIL-IN BALLOTS FOR EX-RESIDENTS Elections Mike Bennett said Elections Mike Bennett staff discovered the fraudduring a routine check of the voter rollthat is done whenever someone requests a mail ballot, the paper reported Friday. He said the voter database is constantly being updated, includingwith information from the state Department of Health on voters who die. As soon as they pulled up the file it showed that she is dead, Elections Mike Bennett said, the paper reported. The supervisors office then compared the handwriting on the absentee ballot request for Wigginss wife with her signature on file, and discovered thatWiggins had forged his wifes signature, according to paper. PENNSYLVANIA OFFICIAL SAYS DUMPED MILITARY BALLOTS NOT INTENTIONAL FRAUD Deputies were alerted on Sept. 17 and prosecutors agreed this weekto take the case to court. Larry Wiggins was booked Thursday on a charge of requesting a vote by mail ballot on behalf of another elector and released on $ 1,500 bail. The crime is punishable by up to five years in prison. Elections Mike Bennett said the Larry Wiggins case was the first case of voter fraud Larry Wiggins has come across in Manatee County since becoming the top elections official in 2012. The amount of fraud committed in Florida in elections is very small.

  5. Gwinnett County spokesman Joe Sorenson:

    The handling of absentee ballot applications and the acceptance and rejection of ballots by Gwinnett County( have) complied with the law and will continue to do so.

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