adjective

• 1Military
  Absent without official leave but without intent to desert.

  ‘we not only dealt with the enemy but with servicemen who had gone AWOL’

  More example sentences

  • ‘he was sentenced to 14 days for being AWOL and intoxicated on duty’

  Synonyms

  away, off, out, not present, non-attending, truant

  1. 1.1Absent from where one should be; missing.
     More example sentences

     • ‘if, having been treated in this way, students go AWOL, no one should be surprised’
     Synonyms

     away, off, out, not present, non-attending, truant