absents
v. B1 Intermediate ab·sents
v. not present in a place where you are expected to be. You use this to describe someone who is missing from a class, a meeting, or a job.
v. not present in a place where one is expected to be. Often used in the passive voice to describe the state of a person or thing.
The teacher marked the students who were absents.
Several key staff members were absents during the meeting, which made it difficult to reach a final decision.
The committee noted that several witnesses were absents from the hearing, citing personal emergencies that prevented their attendance at the scheduled time.