The phrase "absent member" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a member of a group or organization who is not present at a particular time or event.
Example: "During the meeting, we discussed the contributions of the absent member and how we could proceed without their input."
Alternatives: "missing member" or "non-attending member".
Next morning, in the legal firm where Berenger works, stories of the marauding mammals are disbelieved until an absent member of staff is reported to have joined them.
After the first encounter, one of Verlaine's friends, Léon Valade, wrote the next day to an absent member, "You missed a great deal by not being there.
Former Senator Bob Graham of Florida, who made an unsuccessful bid for the 2004 Democratic nomination before leaving the Senate, recalled that he was welcomed back like an absent member of the family.
"When I got home, everywhere I went, people were coming up and saying, 'This is something we really need,' " said Gary Greene, the absent member, who ultimately voted for the testing program.
"The board does not need that absent member to get the five-member quorum to pass the amendment," Mr. Krauss said, "as any five board members would constitute a quorum".
The only absent member will be Graham Chapman, who died in 1989 at the age of 48.
There was a brief frenzy as the combined anti-Boehner votes and absent members rose to 17, the figure that would potentially trigger a second ballot.
Mr. Howard Lindsay, the club's president, read congratulatory telegrams from absent members, and said a few words about the changes in the club over the years.
"Read the writing on the wall," Mr. Grannis called to the majority leader, Paul A. Tokasz, who was on the telephone trying to find absent members.
The assembly, hit by walkouts from minority groups and liberal voices opposed to Islamist domination, worked through the night after the absent members were replaced and voting commenced on the document article by article.
Council members, too, struck a similar note as they discussed the plan among themselves yesterday and prepared to sell it to constituents, many of whom are still chafing over an 18.5percentt increase in the property tax that was passed last year, 41 to 6, with four absent members.
