What's the difference between absentee and landholder?

Absentee


Definition:

  • (n.) One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Absenteeism frequency and length were analysed during the period of 6 to 12 years prior to the onset of the health problem.
  • (2) Other high-profile absentees include Danny Welbeck, Jack Wilshere, Luke Shaw and Jordan Henderson.
  • (3) Sickness absenteeism, of hospital employees particularly, is a problem of concern due to its negative economic and morale impacts.
  • (4) Students present on the last two days of class were higher achievers and on subsequent evaluations gave higher ratings than did absentees, indicating that ratings administered on the last days would have produced a favorably biased response.
  • (5) Among chronic disorders affecting children, asthma ranks as a prominent cause of morbidity and school absenteeism.
  • (6) For this active population the vaccination rate is only 12% and the cost of absenteeism is potentially high.
  • (7) The evaluation was conducted for children only at the end of the project because of literacy problems, but mothers were administered questionnaires pre- and postproject with 8% absenteeism at the end of the project.
  • (8) We conclude that the patients treated for hypertension did not differ importantly from normotensive subjects with regard to illness-induced work absenteeism or other aspects of psychological well-being.
  • (9) The proportion of sickness absentees due to the accidents was 37.8% with 0.47 mean number of spells and 3.1 mean number of days lost per worker per year.
  • (10) We can deal with four or five absentees.” Whether Southgate would dare to choose Wilshere remains to be seen – the reality is he is acutely aware it would be going against Hodgson’s wishes – but the Arsenal player would certainly enhance the team’s chance of success judging by his performance in the 3-1 win against Scotland at Celtic Park.
  • (11) Where girls remain in school a lack of facilities causes widespread absenteeism each month, with the report showing that girls miss an average of 50 days of school each year because of menstruation.
  • (12) A connection is generally assumed between occupational health care (in Dutch 'bedrijfsgezondheidszorg', or BGZ) and a reduction in absenteeism.
  • (13) The purposes of this study were to evaluate the effect of a weekly exercise program on short-term sick leave (less than 50 days) attributable to back pain and to determine whether changes in absenteeism were related to changes in cardiovascular fitness.
  • (14) That, in combination with a greater percentage of the vote being cast via absentees than usual, caused a tilt in the exit poll result towards Democrat Tom Barrett.
  • (15) The majority of time lost from work as a result of absenteeism is classified as due to sickness although only a small proportion of the total can be regarded as a result of unfitness for work for medical reasons.
  • (16) Academic achievement, absenteeism, and athletic involvement (hockey) data were collected on 484 boys throughout British Columbia.
  • (17) The aim of the first stage of the study was to identify according to some demographic (sex, age, marital status) and occupational (occupational group, duration of hospital employment) variables those groups of hospital employees who are at higher risk of sickness absenteeism.
  • (18) Migraine is an appreciable economic concern due to frequent short absenteeism from work.
  • (19) Furthermore, school and industrial absenteeism are not very sensitive indicators of influenza-A activity; however, school absenteeism was a good index of influenza-B activity.
  • (20) Among both manual laborers and professional-technical workers, the number of days off work (at bed rest) prescribed by the physician was significantly related to greater absenteeism from work; the physician's diagnosis of an actual or possible disc problem was also related (P less than .05) to greater work loss among manual laborers.

Landholder


Definition:

  • (n.) A holder, owner, or proprietor of land.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Socioeconomic status was based on an index developed from landholdings, household goods, and occupation, and households were classified as high and low status.
  • (2) The $1.2bn Shenhua coalmine faces a significant setback after local landholders launched a legal challenge to the New South Wales government approval process over whether it properly considered the impact of the mine on the local koala population.
  • (3) The federal department then sent another letter to the landholders three weeks ago expressing “deep regret” if the previous letter had caused them distress.
  • (4) It said it had presented two of the three landholders involved in the land court challenge with “reasonable make-good agreements” which held the company legally liable “in the unlikely event of unduly impacting their groundwater resources”.
  • (5) The Queensland government, concerned about the land clearing rates, also requested that Hunt’s department write to some landholders with land clearing permits asking for information about possible breaches of the federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, but those letters prompted a fierce backlash from agricultural groups and from National Party senator Barry O’Sullivan who attacked the “green activist inclinations” of the federal department.
  • (6) If everybody had the same lifestyle as Europeans and Americans, it wouldn’t be so much of an issue, but most of the food that is generated and grown in south-east Asia, Latin America and parts of Africa comes from small landholders,” said Mark Maslin, professor of climatology at University College London (UCL).
  • (7) A demonstration by local landholders against Australia’s expanding asylum seeker facilities on Manus Island became a “major disturbance” that had to be put down by Papua New Guinean police, sources have told Guardian Australia.
  • (8) Data were collected on household characteristics, fertility, age of women, age of marriage of women, education of husbands (few women were literate), size of landholding, and number of relatives (other than the husband, wife, and unmarried children) in the household.
  • (9) There was no significant association between landholding and the duration of breastfeeding.
  • (10) According to weight-for-age standards, 51% of the study infants were malnourished and there was a significant inverse correlation between landholdings and malnutrition.
  • (11) Smith ruled that GVK Hancock must resolve concerns raised by the landholders and that three additional monitoring points are to be placed on each of the properties to analyse the water level.
  • (12) The landholder would then be obliged to respond in good faith, say, either in writing or at an out of court mediation session.
  • (13) The irrigated landholdings of dying children's families were on average approximately half the size of those of survivors' families.
  • (14) They work quite well around individual landholdings, but less so around villages or common agricultural land, where no one person is responsible for the upkeep.
  • (15) The basic idea is that when a landholder wants to modify wild animal habitat they would be required to hear a submission made by a human guardian on behalf of resident animals.
  • (16) One of those landholders, Jericho grazier Bruce Currie, said he was “no anti-coal mining activist” but supported the current legal challenge to the mine.
  • (17) The government has formally requested the world heritage committee reduce the protected Tasmanian forest area by 4.7%, claiming that the Tasmanian economy will benefit and that landholders were not properly consulted over the extension.
  • (18) Adani is also facing legal challenges from Indigenous landholders and conservation groups, one of which is likely to push state government decisions on mining lease and environmental approvals back until the end of the year at least.
  • (19) When I dream about a sustainable future Lagos, I want to see the large landholdings currently occupied by unnecessary military bases turned into massive public parks.
  • (20) He met the Premier, Campbell Newman, in July to discuss the concerns of landholders.

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