Absentee used in a sentence

Absentee in a sentence as a noun

Voter rolls, on the other hand, or absentee ballots are rife with fraud.

They had an absentee property owner and a string of short-term tenants.

Neither the absentee landlord or the tenants have a commitment to the area.

Next week, however, our absentee landlord gets their day in court to explain their violations of the zoning regulations.

The more rapidly London properties appreciate, the more absentee owners there will be, and the more demand will rise.

Nowadays, it's very difficult to tell who is a real person and who is just like this guy: an absentee landlord for a place they've never lived in.

Why would the city go after a slumlord's properties instead, even if he is an absentee landlord known for ill-maintained rental houses?

London has a huge problem with absentee property owners because London real estate is currently a hot investment.

But I think it's the home owners rather than absentee mega landlords and landladies who are being self-interested and who want to keep the prices inflated.

This surprised me so I googled it. Lo and behold [1]: According to an independent arbitrator last November, the daily absentee rate for the Oakland police department was more than 40 percent.

How about a scheme where people who hold patent portfolios but do nothing with it would be classified as an absentee landlord and temporarily lose their right to block other parties from exploiting it?

Urban housing is effectively a cartel, in that the owners spend a lot of time corrupting city councils and zoning boards to prevent new supply so the absentee mega-owners can charge exorbitant prices.

By contrast, I was never able to cast a Minnesota absentee ballot from Taiwan, even the time when I should have been regarded as having a stable permanent residence address here in the United States.

Same-day registration, early voting, and no-excuse absentee voting are simple and cheap ways to make voting much easier without introducing a bunch of new security problems or dealing with unequal access to computers and the Internet.

At the most recent example, my brief position at Google involved a 1-hour commute each way only to spend 8-10 hours in a dead-silent office, where no one significantly interacted and for which I was forbidden to telecommute by my mostly absentee manager, ever.

I'd be more interested in the seeming lack of stories where the kid with an absentee dad and a mom on welfare or toiling in a minimum wage job to provide for them and their siblings while attending a mediocre public school who has no mentor or support or resources creates the next Facebook or Windows or Angry Birds.