(n.) The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.
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.
Tardiness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being tardy.
Example Sentences:
(1) But even if he had a real-life Tardis it is unlikely that he would travel beyond the here and now, such is his ubiquity across screen and stage.
(2) This will be the ninth episode, in which Jenna Coleman's Clara must lug the Doctor and his Tardis around in her handbag after they get shrunken down to miniature size.
(3) Laughing out loud, laugh out loud (used chiefly in electronic communication to draw attention to a joke of amusing statement, or to express amusement.” Despite criticism at the time, the OED had in fact been tardy in deciding to include it.
(4) I've known for a very long time how to work the Tardis.
(5) I guess you have to do what you can when you don't have a Tardis.
(6) Although Twitter has been criticised for its tardy response to the threats directed at Creasy and Criado-Perez, Whittingdale said he did not know enough about the case to be able to comment on it.
(7) He created his own title sequence for the new series of Doctor Who , complete with Peter Capaldi, a spinning Tardis, intergalactic vistas, and an eye-catching swoop through the gears of a clock.
(8) Anterior subcutaneous transposition is a good method for treating tardy ulnar palsy.
(9) The results show that: elders have substantial levels of forgetting; nonadherence decreases with higher cognitive test scores; portable bar code scanners are useful for monitoring adherence; and voice mail reduces tardiness and complete forgetting.
(10) The pirouette mutation was tested for possible genetic linkage with naked neck, tardy feathering, the MN t(Z;1) chromosome rearrangement, all assigned to distinctly different regions of Chromosome 1, and the OH inv(2) chromosome rearrangement and shankless (associated with the OH inv(2) rearrangement).
(11) Gay rights campaigners point to the Reagan administration’s reluctance to accept the seriousness of Aids as a health issue and tardiness in tackling the resulting crisis in the 1980s.
(12) Even on Saturday, Emmanuel Steward, commentating for HBO, complained repeatedly about the champion's mindset - his insistence on watching the Celtics vs Heat Game 7 , his tardiness to the ring - while praising the collected nature and focus of his younger opponent.
(13) Cubitus varus cases with tardy ulnar nerve palsy, compared to cases without it, were older at the first visit to the clinic for cubitus varus deformity.
(14) Tardy ulnar nerve palsy in the child is an infrequent occurrence.
(15) Thewlis described his conversations with Reynolds in the eccentric Clerkenwell watering hole The Tardis, "about Jesse James and James Joyce".
(16) But he made amends in the 52nd minute when the Jets expertly exploited Adelaide's tardiness.
(17) Nigel Farage , who was so late to a Ukip pre-conference event in Port Talbot that it ended before he arrived, says his tardiness is nothing to do with his professionalism, but is in fact because of immigrants.
(18) Tardy or incompletely dissected circular plaster bandage turned out to be a factor of complication.
(19) Smith said: "He took quite a lot of interest in the Tardis's controls and asked a lot of questions about it.
(20) An unpleasant feature of these glaucomas is that, somehow or other, treatment comes too late: complete cupping of the optic disk when the ophthalmologist is first consulted, increased intraocular pressure in exfoliation syndrome detected too late, or a tardy decision to perform an iridotomy or a fistulizing operation.