Absentee

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun 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.

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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris