Absentee is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABSENTEE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• one who is not present
• a person who is expected or required to be present at a place or event but is not
• person who is not present
• 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.
• one that is absent or not in residence
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one that is not present

Words related to ABSENTEE

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Words that contain ABSENTEE

absentees11 absenteeism15 absenteeisms16

How to use ABSENTEE in a sentence

• The other absentee was, once more, Giuliano! Consternation seized upon the conspirators, for the slaughter would not be complete without the shedding of his blood.
• It was pleasant to observe the effect of the subsiding alarm upon the nerves of the dear absentee.
• Owing to the large amount of land granted to absentee owners, and to the policy of free land grants announced by Simcoe, land was sold at a very low price.
• This estate belongs to Count Freeman, an absentee proprietor.
• A great many estates are managed by attorneys for absentee proprietors.
• The munificent charity of the founder was soon abused and the funds had the common habit of disappearing into the capacious pockets of absentee masters.
• But when the master was an absentee the opportunity for abuses and misunderstandings increased.
• He was an absentee from both pride and inclination, and it is not surprising then that he knew but little of Ireland, and that little was strongly to its disadvantage.
• To such a man, and they formed too numerous a class, the estate of an absentee landlord presented an appropriate, and generally a safe field for action.
• Sir Thomas, like too many of his countrymen, has been an absentee for years, and is only a short time in this country, and still a shorter at Red Hall.
• By noon of the 22nd we had arrived within 12 miles of Perth without remarking the least trace of the supposed absentee, when we were met by Mr.
• Cluvius was given a place at court, while still retaining Spain, of which he was absentee governor, following the precedent of Lucius Arruntius.
• Many years having passed without tidings of the absentee, Gaveston determines to put the castle and lands up for sale.
• Lord Leconfield is also an absentee, without even an address in the county.
• The transaction of the section bought from the English absentee had been but the beginning of bigger and more daring adventures.
• She loved that absentee already too well to forgive his silence.
• The Captain of the host was Himself an absentee, a captive in the grip of His foes.
• Prince Edward Island was chiefly an agricultural community, whose development was greatly retarded by the wholesale grant of lands in 1767 to absentee proprietors.
• Many examples might be found where managers and resident directors have wished to pursue a more liberal policy than absentee shareholders would permit.
• The Absentee Shawnees had taken refuge in Indian Territory prior to the war, but were expelled immediately after it began.
• Nevertheless Parliament passed the Bills, with the addition of a light Absentee Tax.
• I once heard a slave on the plantation of an absentee express the most lively distress at hearing that his master was ill.
• But absence on that occasion in no way excluded the absentee from the other balls.
• The absentee landlords, reckless of social welfare, exacted the rack or competitive rent.
• Political power in Ireland was wielded in the interests of a small territorial and Episcopalian aristocracy, largely absentee.
• Absentee ownership was a grave economic evil, though happily it was not complicated and embittered by a vicious system of tenure.
• The capital that should have gone to enrich and develop the soil was squeezed out of it in rack-rents, largely absentee.
• Only the first three concessions of this township were settled at this time, the remainder of the land being generally in the hands of absentee proprietors.
• I am happy to say, the absentee tax has had the effect of throwing vast quantities of these lands into the market.
• His employer was an absentee who hated the Parson, so the Parson groaned in vain over the scandal.
• Wide territory was needed, so that at last absentee landlordship was common.

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