absconder
- n a fugitive who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution
- It's hard to feel good about a person described as an absconder, an insurgent and an opium-smuggling terrorist--unless the group doing the name calling is the military junta that .
- When an absconder turns up with the loot of an investment company to which her husband's savings are entrusted, she promptly switches her affections to him.
- In this story, as in life, an absconder like Eddie can't return to Singapore without facing prosecution.