0 someone who is not at school or work when they should be: --
1 to send your vote by post or by using the internet when you cannot be present to vote at an election: --
2 someone who is absent --
3 someone who is not at work or at the place where they are supposed to be: --
Furthermore, it is common for the verb with an absentee direct object to be one which, in other contexts, obligatorily has a direct object.
This created a large number of absentee landowners.
This suggested that the content of the current programme complemented the skills required, with skills in communication being the only notable absentee.
Absentee smallholders are of such groups as minor bureaucrats, petty merchants, and schoolteachers.
Of the remaining eighteen, one refused to be tested, and seventeen were persistent absentees.
Of the remaining five, four were persistent absentees who could not be traced, and one refused.
The remaining 11 were 10 absentees and 1 individual who refused but was not suspected of defective colour vision.
Some landowners were, of course, absentees, and would not therefore attend.
