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abscondee
noun 2
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1VERB + ABSCONDEE
search, train
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noun
1
A person who has absconded.
An investigator begins an intensive search for the abscondee.
A Plot in Private Life, a Collins novella, sets Mr Dark, a lawyer's clerk, on the train of an abscondee.
2
A person who is abandoned by an absconder.
'[…] After Norm absconded, I found that a little disconcerting. As if the sonofabitch was still there, staring at me, checking up on me. Are you an absconder, Tom?' 'No, I think I'm technically an abscondee.' 'Ah, well, there we are. We have something in common. Here's to all abscondees.
The self-pity of the absconder against the bitter clarity of the left-behind, the abscondee.
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An investigator begins an intensive search for the abscondee.
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A Plot in Private Life, a Collins novella, sets Mr Dark, a lawyer's clerk, on the train of an abscondee.
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Hong Kong's leader, John Lee, put it more starkly. "The only way to end their destiny of being an abscondee who will be pursued for life is to surrender," he said on Tuesday.
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