From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Absentee \Ab'sen*tee"\, noun 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: one that is absent or not in residence
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
ABSENTEE, noun A person with an income who has had the forethought to remove himself from the sphere of exaction.
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