absentee

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˌæb.sn̩ˈti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc.
    — At roll-call there were three absentees.
  2. A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc.; Designating a person absent in a particular capacity, sometimes implying that they are difficult to contact, unresponsive, avoiding their responsibilities, etc. attributive
    — absentee father; absentee landlord; absentee freeholder
  3. A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc.; A person who is absent from their residence and usual environment, and has not been seen or heard from for some period of time, so that it is unknown whether they are still alive, for the purpose of civil law dealing with the management of property etc. in such cases.
  4. Something that is not present where it might be expected.
    — The manufacturer's promised new model was a notable absentee at the car show.
  5. Designating something whose owner, person responsible, etc. is absent. attributive
    — absentee ballot, absentee property
  6. A landholder who lives in another district or country than the one in which his estate is situated. UK,historical
    — My trustees are going to lend Earl Blessington sixty thousand pounds (at six per cent.) on a Dublin mortgage. Only think of my becoming an Irish absentee!
  7. A voter who is not present at the time of voting; absentee voter.
    — In recent primaries, for example, nearly 4% of absentees were rejected in Philadelphia; 8% in Kentucky; and 20% in parts of New York City.

词形变化

absentees plural

词汇关系

衍生词
absentee ballot absenteeist absentee ownership absenteeship absentee vote absentee voting absenteism presentee
相关词
absenteeism

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Italic *ap
Latin abder.
Latin ab-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt
Proto-Italic *ezom~*som
Old Latin 𐌄𐌔𐌏𐌌 (esom)
Old Latin esum
Latin sum
Latin absum
Latin absēnsder.
Old French ausentder.
Middle French absentbor.
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Latin absēnsbor.
Middle English absent
English absent
English -ee
English absentee
From absent + -ee.
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