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Word Meanings - ABSENTEEISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.

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  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • ESTATE
    1. To establish. Beau. & Fl. 2. Tom settle as a fortune. Shak. 3. To endow with an estate. Then would I . . . Estate them with large land and territory. Tennyson.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • COUNTRY-DANCE
    See MACUALAY
  • WHEREIN
    1. In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift. 2. In what; -- used interrogatively. Yet
  • WHEREVER
    At or in whatever place; wheresoever. He can not but love virtue wherever it is. Atterbury.
  • COUNTRY SEAT
    A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
  • WHERETO
    1. To which; -- used relatively. "Whereto we have already attained." Phil. iii. 16. Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day. Shak. 2. To what; to what end; -- used interrogatively.
  • WHEREAS
    1. Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow. 2. When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that;
  • ABSENTATION
    The act of absenting one's self. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • STATE SOCIALISM
    A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
  • PRACTICER
    1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
  • SITUATE
    To place. Landor.
  • WHERE'ER
    Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form. Cowper.
  • ABSENTEEISM
    The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.
  • STATECRAFT
    The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
  • ABSENTEE
    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.
  • ABSENTANEOUS
    Pertaining to absence.
  • WHEREINTO
    1. Into which; -- used relatively. Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not Shak. The brook, whereinto he loved to look. Emerson. 2. Into what; -- used interrogatively.
  • WHERESOE'ER
    Wheresoever. "Wheresoe'er they rove." Milton.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
  • ENSTATE
    See INSTATE
  • WHER; WHERE
    Whether. Piers Plowman. Men must enquire , Wher she be wise or sober or dronkelewe. Chaucer.
  • KATASTATE
    A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
  • BAYOU STATE
    Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
  • REESTATE
    To reëstablish. Walis.
  • BLACKWATER STATE
    Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
  • ARISTATE
    Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
  • BICOSTATE
    Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.
  • EVERYWHERENESS
    Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
  • TRIPLICOSTATE
    Three-ribbed.
  • EVERYWHERE
    In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
  • DEHONESTATE
    To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see

 

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