NOUN
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the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty
a ten day's leave to visit his mother
How To Use leave of absence In A Sentence
- After "leave of absence" dragged into a constructive discharge, DOJ then assisted Hawkins in contesting my award of unemployment compensation that barely paid for groceries each week. Archive 2007-02-01
- In 1903, after being granted leave of absence for rest and recreation, she sailed for Japan on June 11 that year.
- Yesterday Continental Airlines cut flight schedules by a fifth and gave 12,000 staff a leave of absence.
- She is also an associate clinical professor of medicine at Emory University, Atlanta, and is on leave of absence as an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco.
- While the part of my brain normally responsible for this awareness has taken a leave of absence, I have to recruit another part of my brain to be my own baby-sitter, to monitor my every move and to chime in whenever I need prompting. Left Neglected
- They've refused him leave of absence.
- He applied for a leave of absence
- She took a leave of absence from the company in April and resigned in June.
- Patrick Brady, 28, took a leave of absence from Gov.
- Flexible working policies cover leave of absence. Times, Sunday Times