Usually means: Absent without official leave permission.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word AWOL:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. AWOL: Merriam-Webster
  2. AWOL: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. AWOL: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. A.W.O.L, AWOL: Collins English Dictionary
  5. AWOL, awol: Vocabulary.com
  6. Awol, awol: Wordnik
  7. AWOL, awol: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. AWOL, awol: Wiktionary
  9. AWOL: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. AWOL: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. AWOL: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. AWOL, a.w.o.l: Dictionary.com
  13. awol: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. A.W.O.L. (album), AWOL (disambiguation), AWOL, Awol: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Awol: Rhymezone
  16. AWOL: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. awol: FreeDictionary.org
  18. awol: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. AWOL: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. awol: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  21. AWOL: Merriam-Webster

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AWOL: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. AWOL: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. AWOL (disambiguation), AWOL: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AWOL: Netlingo
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. SMS Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. AWOL: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AWOL (disambiguation), AWOL: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AWOL, AWOL, AWOL: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. AWOL: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. AWOL: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See awols as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (originally military) Absent without official leave (permission).
noun:  (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.
noun:  (military) A person who holds AWOL status.
noun:  (by extension) Somebody who is absent without permission.
noun:  (figuratively) Someone or something missing.
adjective:  Alternative letter-case form of AWOL [(originally military) Absent without official leave (permission).]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of AWOL [(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.]

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