Citations:absentee

English citations of absentee

• 2017 August 10, Nick Silver, Finance, Society and Sustainability: How to Make the Financial System Work for the Economy, People and Planet, Springer, →ISBN, page 111:

  Hedge funds are more abstracted from the actual "real" operation of the economy, money invested in a hedge fund is even less likely to find its way into "real" assets, hedge funds are even more absentee than other asset owners (although we will see later that there is a subgrouping of hedge funds which are activist owners).

• 2020 July 7, Paige McKenzie, B*WITCH, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:

  […] these days, he was even more absentee than usual, with the new trophy wife and new spawn and all. (The wife, Sloane, was a game designer and coder, which sort of redeemed her for having had that affair with Binx's dad. The spawn, Lucas, age eight months, was […]

• 2012 June 19, Alison Adburgham, Silver Fork Society: Fashionable Life and Literature from 1814 to 1840, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:

  ... landlords – a somewhat ironic choice of subject, surely, since Lord Blessington had been a very absentee landlord. The novel was quite favourably reviewed, although the inevitable comparisons with Maria Edgeworth's novels of Irish life […]

• 1938, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Avowals and Denials: A Book of Essays:

  ... a very absentee landlord . He does not really go down the mines on the historic property , whether they are the Caves of the Cave - Men or the Cata- combs of the Christians , but is content with a very hasty and often misleading report […]