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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
absenteeism
noun
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▪ He said those benefits include higher productivity, lower turnover, less absenteeism and stronger loyalty from the workforce.
▪ However, employers are probably the main beneficiaries of any reduction in absenteeism.
▪ In the early 1980s it had the highest absenteeism and dropout rates in Portland.
▪ It seems, then, that participation in sport is associated with reduced absenteeism.
▪ It went on, Past mistakes such as high absenteeism and poor quality will not be tolerated by the new company.
▪ Such reduced absenteeism is a social benefit in that it reduces public expenditure through the statutory sick-pay scheme.
▪ There was virtually no absenteeism or turnover.
▪ They accounted for nearly one-third of the £20 billion lost through absenteeism.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Absenteeism

Absenteeism \Ab`sen*tee"ism\, n. 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
absenteeism

1829, from absentee + -ism; originally in reference to landlords, especially in Ireland (absentee in this sense is in Johnson's dictionary); reference to pupils or workers is from 1922.

Wiktionary
absenteeism

n. 1 The state of being absent, especially frequently or without good reason; the practice of an absentee. (First attested in the early 19th century.)(R:SOED5: page=9) 2 The practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.

WordNet
absenteeism

n. habitual absence from work

Wikipedia
Absenteeism

Absenteeism is a habitual pattern of absence from a duty or obligation. Traditionally, absenteeism has been viewed as an indicator of poor individual performance, as well as a breach of an implicit contract between employee and employer; it was seen as a management problem, and framed in economic or quasi-economic terms. More recent scholarship seeks to understand absenteeism as an indicator of psychological, medical, or social adjustment to work.

Usage examples of "absenteeism".

He publicly chastised the cardinals for absenteeism, luxury, and lascivious life, forbade them to hold or sell plural benefices, prohibited their acceptance of pensions, gifts of money, and other favors from secular sources, ordered the papal treasurer not to pay them their customary half of the revenue from benefices but to use it for the restoration of churches in Rome.

From top to bottom, corruption, absenteeism and featherbedding were rampant.

Gussy, the tickler's already eliminated absenteeism, alcoholism, and aboulia in numerous urban areas—and that's just one letter of the alphabet!

He'd had a great breakfast that morning, had gotten to work early enough to sit and have a second cup of coffee with several of the other supervisors, and had had to face fewer absenteeisms than usual.

He’d had a great breakfast that morning, had gotten to work early enough to sit and have a second cup of coffee with several of the other supervisors, and had had to face fewer absenteeisms than usual.

Berringer had jotted down folksy notes about cramps and heavy periods, advising a consultation with the family physician, there was suddenly concern about the girl's mounting absenteeism.