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
But in the execution of his fixed purpose the young Corsican patriot was heedless of military obligations to France, and wilfully remained absent from duty.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan
I saw them every day as I went by to the Halles, lounging against the walls—linesmen among them, too, absent from duty without leave.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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
