Usually means: Leaving secretly to avoid capture.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. absconding: Merriam-Webster
  2. absconding: Collins English Dictionary
  3. absconding: Vocabulary.com
  4. absconding: Wordnik
  5. absconding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. absconding: Wiktionary
  7. Absconding, absconding: Dictionary.com
  8. absconding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Absconding: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Absconding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Absconding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. absconding: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. absconding: FreeDictionary.org
  14. absconding: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. absconding: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. absconding: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  An instance in which someone absconds.

Similar:
absquatulate, run off, go off, decamp, bolt, abscondence, abscondancy, abscondee, absentation, absenteeism, more...

Opposite:
staying, remaining, lingering, staying put

Types:
embezzlement, larceny, robbery, burglary, kidnapping, fraud, theft, shoplifting, more...

Adjectives:
such, persistent, french, secret, first, previous, frequent, fraudulent, successful, latter



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Similar:
absquatulate, run off, go off, decamp, bolt, abscondence, abscondancy, abscondee, absentation, absenteeism, more...

Opposite:
staying, remaining, lingering, staying put

Types:
embezzlement, larceny, robbery, burglary, kidnapping, fraud, theft, shoplifting, more...

Adjectives:
such, persistent, french, secret, first, previous, frequent, fraudulent, successful, latter



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