| 单词 | absentee voter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasabsentee voter 1. That is an absentee; designating a person who is absent from his or her country, home, property, or place of employment, either habitually or on a particular occasion. Frequently in absentee landlord, absentee voter. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > absence > [adjective] > absent or gone away absentee1772 waygone1831 1772 London Mag. Apr. 199/1 Whether a tax upon all non-resident and absentee clergymen would not be..reasonable and expedient? 1822 J. Wiggins (title) A letter to the absentee landlords of the South of Ireland. 1859 Brit. Colonist (Victoria) 22 Jan. 1/1 It is not generally known that a law exists in this colony by which an absentee voter can vote by proxy. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 454 The Norwegians preferred a foreign and absentee king. 1932 D. B. O'Connor Belle of Barrine 4 The harvests of our heritage are squandered by absentee bosses..in the casinos of Europe. 1957 N.Z. Offic. Year-bk. 1957 29 These latter conditions replace the former classes of absentee, postal, and declaration voters. 1974 Guardian 23 Jan. 12/2 Edward Long, historian, statistician and so-called absentee sinecurist and negrophobe. 1997 Express 19 Feb. 74/1 The Scots who were expelled from their land and livelihood by absentee English landlords. < as lemmas |
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