Absentee

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Absentee \Ab`sen*tee"\, n.
     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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  absentee
       n : one that is absent or not in residence

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ABSENTEE. One who is away from his domicil, or usual place of residence.
       2. After an absence of seven years without being heard from, the
  presumption of death arises. 2 Campb. R. 113; Hardin's R. 479; 18 Johns. R.
  141 15 Mass. R. 805; Peake's Ev. c. 14, s. 1; 2 Stark. Ev. 457 8; 4 Barn. &
  A. 422; 1 Stark. C. 121 Park on Ins. 433; 1 Bl. R. 404; Burr v. Simm, 4 Wh.
  150; Bradley v. Bradley, 4 Wh. 173.
       3. In Louisiana, when a person possessed of either movable or immovable
  property within the state, leaves it, without having appointed somebody to
  take care of his estate; or when the person thus appointed dies, or is
  either unable or unwilling to continue to administer that estate, then and
  in that case, the judge of the place where the estate is situated, shall
  appoint a curator to administer the same. Civ. Code of Lo. art. 50.  In the
  appointment of this curator the judge shall prefer the wife of the absentee
  to his presumptive heirs, the presumptive heirs to other relations; the
  relations to strangers, and creditors to those who are not otherwise
  interested, provided, however, that such persons be possessed of the
  necessary qualifications. Ib. art. 51. For the French law on this subject,
  vide Biret, de l'Absende; Code Civil, liv. l tit.. 4. Fouss. lib. 13 tit. 4,
  n. 379-487; Merl. Rep. h.t.; and see also Ayl. Pand. 269; Dig. 50, 16, 198;
  Ib. 50, 16, 173; Ib. 3, 3,,6; Code, 7 32 12.
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  ABSENTEE, n.  A person with an income who has had the forethought to
  remove himself from the sphere of exaction.