What does abscondment mean?

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  1. An act of absconding or escaping
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These effects are applied on principle when a threat to public order or risk of abscondment justifies the refusal of voluntary return.
Her abscondment prompted a large-scale search and she was returned to custody two days later after being found at a nearby Premier Inn Hotel.
Anderson said that he would be dealing with the latest abscondment, and one that took place last Christmas, in his 2014 report.
But events beyond these rather too Manichean contrasts – abscondment, sleeping rough and more opportunities for scuffed knees – lack real development or resolution.
Its basis principles consist in giving priority to voluntary return and sanctioning a prohibition on return for behaviour revealing the risk of abscondment, fraud or a threat to public order.

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