absentee

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absentee (plural absentees)

A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]^[1]
(chiefly UK, historical) A landholder who lives in another district or country than the one in which his estate is situated. [First attested in the early 17^th century.]^[1]
- 1840, Lord Byron, "Letter 374: to Mr. Moore (24 May 1820)," in The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, John Murray (London), p. 317:
  My trustees are going to lend Earl Blessington sixty thousand pounds (at six per cent.) on a Dublin mortgage. Only think of my becoming an Irish absentee!
One that is nonextistent or lacking.
A voter that is not present at the time of voting; absentee voter. [First attested in the early 20^th century.]^[1]

A person who is absent

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

absentee (not comparable)

(attributive) Pertaining to one that is absent. [First attested in the mid 19^th century.]^[1]

“absentee” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
absentee in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
“absentee” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.

↑ ^1.0^1.1^1.2^1.3 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 8:

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