unauthorized absence

1. 1.

   unauthorized military absence

   Synonymsabsence without leave

   Broaderdesertion

   military

Questions about unauthorized absence

What does unauthorized absence mean?

unauthorized absence means "unauthorized military absence".

What is another word for unauthorized absence?

Close synonyms include absence without leave. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is unauthorized absence a common word?

unauthorized absence 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.