AWOL
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EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Acronym of absent without official leave, originally used in the United States military.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
AWOL (not comparable)
- (military and generic) Absent without official leave (permission).
- The Army had a lot of AWOL soldiers.
TranslationsEdit
absent without permission
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NounEdit
AWOL (plural AWOLs)
- (military) Absence without proper authority from the properly appointed place of duty, or from unit, organization, or other place of duty at which one is required to be at the time prescribed.
- (military) A person who holds AWOL status.
- (generic) Somebody who is absent without permission.
- (figuratively) Someone or something missing.
TranslationsEdit
military: absence without proper authority
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generic: one who is absent without permission
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figuratively: someone or something missing
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See alsoEdit
- French leave
- no-call-no-show
- UA (“unauthorized absence”)