absentee

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ab=sen=tee

CIDE DICTIONARY

absentee, n. 

 One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee.  Macaulay.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

absentee, n. a person not present, esp. one who is absent from work or school.

Idiom

absentee landlord a landlord who lets a property while living elsewhere.

DEVIL DICTIONARY

absentee

n. A person with an income who has had the forethought to remove himself from the sphere of exaction.

ROGET THESAURUS

absentee

Absence

N absence, inexistence, nonresidence, absenteeism, nonattendance, alibi, emptiness, void, vacuum, vacuity, vacancy, tabula rasa, exemption, hiatus, lipotype, truant, absentee, nobody, nobody present, nobody on earth, not a soul, ame qui vive, absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home, missing, lost, wanting, omitted, nowhere to be found, inexistence, empty, void, vacant, vacuous, untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited, tenantless, barren, sterile, desert, deserted, devoid, uninhabitable, without, minus, nowhere, elsewhere, neither here nor there, in default of, sans, behind one's back, the bird has flown, non est inventus, absence makes the heart grow fonder, absent in body but present in spirit, absento nemo ne nocuisse velit, Achilles absent was Achilles still, aux absents les os, briller par son absence, conspicuous by his absence, in the hope to meet shortly again and make our abs.