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
The Ultonians falter while you are absent from duty in battle and council, and I, whom you brought with sweet words when half a child from my home, am left alone.
From AE in the Irish Theosophist by Russell, George William
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
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)
