absentee vs truant

absentee

noun
  • 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. 

adj
  • Pertaining to one that is absent. 

truant

noun
  • One who is absent without permission, especially from school. 

verb
  • To play truant. 

  • To idle away; to waste. 

  • To idle away time. 

adj
  • Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty. 

  • Absent without permission, especially from school. 

How often have the words absentee and truant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )