Usually means: Person not present as expected.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word absentee:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. absentee: Merriam-Webster
  2. absentee: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. absentee: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. absentee: Collins English Dictionary
  5. absentee: Vocabulary.com
  6. Absentee, absentee: Wordnik
  7. absentee: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. absentee: Wiktionary
  9. absentee: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. absentee: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. absentee: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. absentee: Dictionary.com
  13. absentee: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Absentee (album), Absentee (band), Absentee, The Absentee: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Absentee: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. absentee: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. absentee: Rhymezone
  18. Absentee: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. absentee: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. absentee: FreeDictionary.org
  21. absentee: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. absentee: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. absentee: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. absentee: Merriam-Webster

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. absentee: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. absentee: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Absentee: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. absentee: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See absentees as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc.
noun:  (attributive) Designating a person absent in a particular capacity, sometimes implying that they are difficult to contact, unresponsive, avoiding their responsibilities, etc.
noun:  Something that is not present where it might be expected.
noun:  (attributive) Designating something whose owner, person responsible, etc. is absent.
noun:  (chiefly British, historical) A landholder who lives in another district or country than the one in which his estate is situated.
noun:  One that is nonexistent or lacking.
noun:  A voter that is not present at the time of voting; absentee voter.

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