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How to pronounce absentee in English?

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Type Words
Type of traveller, traveler
Has types exile, expat, expatriate, hooky player, awol, truant, defaulter
Derivation absent

Examples of absentee

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Another change in election law allows absentee ballots to be open to all voters.
From the dailyherald.com
People can vote absentee either by mail or in person at county election offices.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Board Director Jane Platten says there is still plenty of time to vote absentee.
From the scoop.co.nz
Often an absentee landlord will add this task to his first-floor tenant's lease.
From the democratandchronicle.com
Absentee voting, Beltram said, is not intended for those who want to vote early.
From the thestate.com
Her opponent, Democrat Kay Hagan, has characterized Dole as an absentee senator.
From the newsobserver.com
Hagood said on Friday that requests for absentee ballots this year numbered 340.
From the al.com
He, too, timed a portion of his campaign around the arrival of absentee ballots.
From the fresnobee.com
Every soldier in the unit got an application for an absentee ballot, Locke said.
From the newsobserver.com
More examples
  • One that is absent or not in residence
  • Absentee is Pitch Black Forecast's debut CD featuring backing vocals from Randy Blythe of Lamb of God.
  • Absentee are a band from London in the UK, signed to Memphis Industries. They are Dan Michaelson (vocals/guitar), Melinda Bronstein (vocals, keyboards, melodica, glockenspiel), Babak Ganjei (guitar/lap steel), Laurie Earle (bass) and Che Albrighton (drums).
  • The Absentee is a novel by Maria Edgeworth, published in 1812 in Tales of Fashionable Life, that expresses the systemic evils of the absentee landlord class of Anglo-Irish and the desperate condition of the Irish peasantry.
  • The Absentee (La ausente) is a 1951 Mexican drama film directed by Julio Bracho. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
  • A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc; A landholder who lives in another district or country than the one in which his estate is situated
  • The Multics absentee facility is like traditional batch processing, or the Unix batch and at facilities. A user creates an input file in exec_com language, suffixed by . ...
  • One who has left, either temporarily or permanently, his or her domicile or usual place of residence or business. ...
  • Person not at the meeting, not present