absenteeism

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ab=sen=tee=ism

CIDE DICTIONARY

absenteeism, n. 

 The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

absenteeism, n. the practice of absenting oneself from work or school etc., esp. frequently or illicitly.

ROGET THESAURUS

absenteeism

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.