absence
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Pronunciation[change]
- IPA (key): /ˈæbsəns/
- SAMPA: /"{bs@ns/
- Hyphenation: ab‧sence
- (uncountable) Absence is when something is not there.
- There was an absence of help for the project.
- (countable) An absence is a time something is not there.
- I failed the class because I had too many absences.
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