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Definition: TO TAKE LEAVE |
TO TAKE LEAVE1. See Leave , n., 2. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Netherlands | In other areas, antidiscrimination boards have rebuked publicly employers for failure to allow non-Christians to take leave from work on their religious holidays, for objecting to Sikhs wearing turbans, Muslim women wearing headscarves, or to observance of food requirements on religious grounds. (references) |
Human Rights | Uganda | In July Lydia Kamanyi, the deputy campaign manager for Aggrey Awori, was forced to take leave from her position following harassment by officials. (references) |
Women | Italy | A March 2000 law on parental leave grants mothers and fathers an equal right to take leave when a child is sick. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "TO TAKE LEAVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Abschied nehmen (say good-bye, take smb.'s leave). (various references) | |
Hungarian | eltávozik (come away, go away, to bow out, to clear off, to depart, to get off, to go off, to take one's departure), elmegy (betake, check out, depart, egress, flit, go, go away, go off, go with, leave, left, off it, pass out, take off, to chase oneself, to check out, to go away, to go forth, to go off, to go past, to leave, to leave for, to march off, to piss off, to push off, to put over, to quit, to resort, to sally forth, to sheer off, to sod off, to take one's departure, to turkey off, to turn away, to visit), elbúcsúzik (farewell, part company, say good-bye, to bow out, to part, to say goodby, to say goodbye, to take leave of sy), búcsút vesz. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otay aketay eavelay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-e-k-l-o-t-t-v" | |
-4 letters: elevate. | |
-5 letters: kettle, oleate, ottava, vakeel, velate. | |
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