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What (who) is AWOL - definition
ABANDONMENT OF MILITARY DUTY WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION
AWOL; Deserter; Absent without leave; Deserters; A.W.O.L.; Absent Without Leave; Unauthorized absence; Unauthorized Absence; Missing movement; Desertions; Awol; Absent Without (Official) Leave; Absent Without Official Leave; Absence without official leave; Absence without leave; Absence Without Official Leave; Desertrix; Deserting; Absence Without Leave; Military deserter; Desertion in Nazi Germany; Absent unknown; Failure to repair
![A United States wartime poster deprecating absence](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/" A Black Mark for the Squad. A.W.O.L." - NARA - 512701.jpg?width=200 "A United States wartime poster deprecating absence")
![[[Armenia]]n soldiers in 1919, with deserters as prisoners](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Armenian soldiers with deserters cph.3c32320.jpg?width=200 "[[Armenia]]n soldiers in 1919, with deserters as prisoners")
![A 1918 cartoon by [[Cecil Hartt]] making light of the high incidence of soldiers going absent without leave in the Australian Imperial Force](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cartoon by Cecil Lawrence Hartt about an Australian soldier reporting back after six months AWL.jpg?width=200 "A 1918 cartoon by [[Cecil Hartt]] making light of the high incidence of soldiers going absent without leave in the Australian Imperial Force")
![''Deserteur'' (Дезертир), by [[Ilya Repin]], 1917](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Репин. Дезертир.jpg?width=200 "''Deserteur'' (Дезертир), by [[Ilya Repin]], 1917")
AWOL
adj. to go AWOL
AWOL
Abesent WithOut Leave (Reference: telecommunication, Usenet, IRC)
AWOL
1.
AWOL is an abbreviation for 'absent without leave'. If someone in the Armed Forces goes AWOL, they leave their post without the permission of a superior officer.
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2.
If you say that someone has gone AWOL, you mean that they have disappeared without telling anyone where they were going. (INFORMAL)
ADJ: usu v-link ADJ
Wikipedia
Desertion
Desertion is the abandonment of a military duty or post without permission (a pass, liberty or leave) and is done with the intention of not returning. This contrasts with unauthorized absence (UA) or absence without leave (AWOL ), which are temporary forms of absence.
Examples of use of AWOL
1. When it comes to football, your rationality goes AWOL.
2. AWOL, that‘s where –– cowering in indecision and fear.
3. Some consider employees AWOL when they are 15 minutes late.
4. Rose suggests that the dolphins went AWOL because they preferred life in the wild.
5. Kyle Snyder, 23, a former combat engineer, went AWOL from his Army unit after failing to report to Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., on Nov. 1 – a day after turning himself in after an 18–month AWOL stint.