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What is an absconder?

What is an absconder? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A person who absconds. [First attested in the early 18th century.]
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A spokesman for the Home Office said he was an absconder rather than an escapee, as he was officially allowed out of prison on licence.
They must get a signed warrant from a judge before sending law-enforcement officers after the absconder.
The committee found that absconder are contributing to the increased presence of expatriates in the Sultanate.
The law would claim him as an absconder, and would mete out to him such punishment as was fitting.
Indeed, it seems that an attempt to arrest the real absconder on the basis of this warrant would have been unlawful, since he was not the person named in it.
The absconder is often too inarticulate and ill at ease to give a clear picture of what was in his mind when he went away.

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