English Dictionary

missing in action

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmɪsɪŋ ɪn ˈækʃən/

形容詞

比較不可 広義

(chiefly military) The designation for a member of an organization (usually military) with whom contact is lost and whose whereabouts are not known, but whose death is not confirmed.

日本語の意味

戦闘中に連絡が取れなくなり、その所在や生死が確認されていない軍人を指す。 / 軍事用語として、交戦中に行方不明となった者、または所在不明で状況が不明な者

The committee established a memorial for the missing in action pilots whose fates remain unknown.

委員会は、戦闘中に行方不明となり安否が確認されていないパイロットたちのために記念碑を建立した。

意味（1）

(chiefly military) The designation for a member of an organization (usually military) with whom contact is lost and whose whereabouts are not known, but whose death is not confirmed.

Missing in action are those who have been dropped from the muster-roll as missing in action, and have subsequently joined again. … If the missing in action, or desertion, and the return to the company, both occur in the quarter, it is not necessary to note them; in other words, it is not necessary that the soldiers should be dropped and taken up again on the same return.

意味（2）

(by extension) Not present when one is expected to be.

He says that when pressed about why the money was missing in action, NAB [National Australia Bank] failed to provide an explanation and threatened to foreclose on the customer.