English-Portuguese translations for absentee

• absentista
• ausente
  Ao contrário dessas pessoas, sou um membro ausente da Comissão dos Orçamentos. I am rather an absentee member of the Committee on Budgets myself.
  No sul da Irlanda, tivemos proprietários ausentes e rendeiros que não podiam dar-se ao luxo de pagar a sua parte e que não tinham a posse da sua propriedade. In the south of Ireland we had absentee landlords, and tenants who could not afford to pay their way and who had no ownership of their property.
  Há três anos, o Parlamento afirmou que o Conselho, o grande ausente, devia ser chamado a explicar como gasta a maior parte do orçamento que gere. It is now three years since this Parliament said that the Council, the great absentee, should be involved in order to account for how it spends the greater part of the budget which it controls.

Definition of absentee

• A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc.
• One that is nonexistent or lacking
• Pertaining to one that is absent.

Related words

• absenteeism
• absenteeist
• absentee voting
• absentee ballot
• persistent absentee