After Hurricane Florence and Hurricane Michael last fall, USPS worked with state and local election boards to make sure that absentee ballots were available and received or time.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
N-COUNT
（应到而未到的）不在者，缺席者
An absentee is a person who is expected to be in a particular place but who is not there.
ADJ
不在的;缺席的
Absentee is used to describe someone who is not there to do a particular job in person.