Cryptic crossword clue
Old female repeatedly absent 3

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word OFF

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The straight part

We know that "absent" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case absent = off.

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What does OFF mean?

1. (usually in phrases such as 'from the off', 'at the off', etc.) Beginning; starting point.

1. To kill.
2. To switch off.

1. Inoperative, disabled.
2. Cancelled; not happening.
3. Not fitted; not being worn.
4. Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
5. Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
6. Inappropriate; untoward.
7. (in phrases such as 'well off', 'better off', 'poorly off') Circumstanced.
8. Started on the way.
9. Far; off to the side.
10. Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
11. (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
12. (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.
13. (in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
14. In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.

1. In a direction away from the speaker or object.
2. Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
3. So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
4. Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.

1. Not positioned upon; away from a position upon.
2. Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
3. Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
4. Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
5. Removed or subtracted from.
6. No longer wanting or taking.
7. (more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.
8. Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.

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