absentee rate

1. 1.

   the percentage of workers who do not report to work

   Broaderpercentage

Questions about absentee rate

What does absentee rate mean?

absentee rate means "the percentage of workers who do not report to work".

Is absentee rate a common word?

absentee rate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.