absent from duty

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About 550 officers are absent from duty every day.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2023

Regardless of consequences he did what few people thought he would dare do, and dismissed Leader Donovan for being "inefficient, insubordinate and absent from duty without leave."

From Time Magazine Archive

For twenty months, Miss Titcomb was absent from duty but two days, and others had a record nearly as satisfactory.

From Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience by Bellows, Henry W.

Blest with perfect health, he was not absent from duty through indisposition for a single day in his two years' campaigning.

From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Jones, Henry Paul Mainwaring

He drove to London Bridge Station, and there learned that the porter had been for a week absent from duty, having strained his back in lifting a heavy trunk.

From By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)