Definition of "absentia" []

• Absence (noun)

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• "The so-called elecciónextraordinaria y democracia in absentia is the brainchild of Jorge Menos Canosa, a prosperous leader of the Cuban expatriate community in Miami and, like most of his countrymen who arrived in Florida after the revolution, a fierce opponent of the Castro regime."
• "Yemen charged in absentia American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki with membership in al Qaeda and plotting to kill foreigners in Yemen."
• "Convicted in absentia, so Krombach is a convicted killer there ... but alleged according to German law because the court there has ruled that the death was accidental."