how to pronounce absentee

/ˌæb.sənˈtiː/

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absentee is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of absentee in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… hands those are the absentee and of …”

meanings of absentee

noun:

A voter that is not present at the time of voting; absentee voter.
One that is nonexistent or lacking.
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.

adjective:

Pertaining to one that is absent.

absentee frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word absentee occurs in english on average 1.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics absentee can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that absentee can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;

3) people, society, and culture;