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in absentia (formal) if something happens to someone in absentia, they are not present when it happens to them The court convicted her in absentia and fined her $500. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Celil fled China in the 1990s, having been sentenced to death in absentia for separatist political activities. Roman Polanski waited decades after fleeing a warrant for pedophilia before he finally snagged, in absentia, his Best Director statue for ``The Pianist. Belgium's Supreme Court held that the country's 1993 Anti-Atrocity legislation allowed for prosecution in absentia, thereby finding the plaintiffs' bases for appeal of a lower court decision to be well-founded, and allowed the case to proceed. |
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