| 单词 | absentee |
| 释义 | absentee (æbsəntiː ) Word forms: absentees 1. countable noun 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 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. Collocations: absentee father For many years he must have been an absentee father. Times, Sunday Times (2010) He didn't have an absentee father. Christianity Today (2000) An absentee father and husband, he had none of the usual trappings of normality. Notorious: The Maddest and Baddest Sportsmen on the Planet (2006) A lot of older absentee landowners are selling off to liquidate funds and stuff and it’s gonna change things. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He later started acting as an agent for absentee landowners. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Ultimately, roughly 98 percent of the park acreage was bought from absentee landowners. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They tend to engage agricultural labourers on their fields, and many are absentee landowners. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 An absentee owner and a club for sale. Times, Sunday Times (2008) 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) Translations: Chinese: 缺席者, 缺席的 Japanese: 欠席者, 欠席者の |
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