How to use absent?
1They were talking about absent friends. [=friends who were not there]an absent father who is not home most of the time.The soldier was absent without leave. [=AWOL; absent without having permission to be absent]Most of the executives attended the meeting, but the company president was conspicuously absent.
1They were talking about absent friends. [=friends who were not there]an absent father who is not home most of the time.The soldier was absent without leave. [=AWOL; absent without having permission to be absent]Most of the executives attended the meeting, but the company president was conspicuously absent.
