A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc.
One that is nonexistent or lacking.
A landholder who lives in another district or country than the one in which his estate is situated.
A voter that is not present at the time of voting; absentee voter.
Pertaining to one that is absent.
A homeless and/or jobless person; a person who is (perceived as) negligent in their personal affairs and hygiene. (This sense is a modern development of the preceding sense.)
Property abandoned by its former owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.
Negligent in performing a duty.
Abandoned, forsaken; given up by the natural owner or guardian; (of a ship) abandoned at sea, dilapidated, neglected; (of a spacecraft) abandoned in outer space.
Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful.