ABSENTEEISM in a Sentence

Learn ABSENTEEISM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

10 example sentences for ABSENTEEISM, such as:

1. The high rate of absenteeism is costing the company a lot of money.
2. The house has an absentee landlord , who visits the property once a year.
3. There was only one absentee because everybody knew the meeting was very important.
4. True, there were absentees when Mr. Streatfield called his roll call in the church.
5. Twenty had changed to fifteen and fifteen to ten, but there was no news of the absentee.

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 Meanings and Examples of ABSENTEEISM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
absenteeism
 n.  habitual not to appear, especially for work or other regular duty
Classic Sentence:
1  White people are more in evidence here, and farmer and hired labor replace to some extent the absentee landlord and rack-rented tenant.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  Formerly all tenants had some capital, and often considerable; but absentee landlordism, rising rack-rent, and failing cotton have stripped them well-nigh of all, and probably not over half of them to-day own their mules.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
3  Twenty had changed to fifteen and fifteen to ten, but there was no news of the absentee.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
4  True, there were absentees when Mr. Streatfield called his roll call in the church.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
5  Until Prince Andrew settled in Bogucharovo its owners had always been absentees, and its peasants were of quite a different character from those of Bald Hills.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence:
1  But absenteeism has become a big problem in Britain, where the employment laws offer protection to sick workers.
2  The high rate of absenteeism is costing the company a lot of money.
3  There was only one absentee because everybody knew the meeting was very important.
4  The house has an absentee landlord , who visits the property once a year.
5  We are able to identify absentees immediately and use the extra time to tackle the problem with academic counselling.