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Definition: Furlough |
FurloughNoun1. A temporary leave of absence from military duty. Verb1. Dismiss, usually for economic reasons. 2. Grant a leave to; "The prisoner was furloughed for the weekend to visit her children". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "furlough" was first used: 1625. (references) |
Synonym: FurloughSynonym: lay off (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Permission | Permit, warrant, brevet, precept, sanction, authority, firman; hukm; pass, passport; furlough, license, carte blanche, ticket of leave; grant, charter; patent, letters patent. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Furlough |
| English words defined with "furlough": Furloughed, Furloughing. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yes sir, either that or a furlough. (Love and Death; writing credit: Woody Allen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Perfect Furlough (1959) Fun on Furlough (1959) Fellow on a Furlough (1944) A Jolly Good Furlough (1943) On Furlough (1927) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Furlough "Booby Trap!" : No is the best tactic: the next, PROphylactic!. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Bowdle, South Dakota. Soldier home on furlough, talking with friend in front of pool hall. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mrs. Charles R. Moeser, Furlough Farm, residence in Bedford Hills, New York. Barn and stables. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Iran | He was permitted a 2-day furlough from prison in September. (references) |
Costa Rica | The Government contends that this individual, who was in a furlough program at year's end, was sentenced for three murders and is not a political prisoner. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Furlough" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Furlough" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "furlough" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Furlough | Last name | 400 | 22,276 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "furlough": go on furlough ♦ soldier on furlough. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
furlough | 23 |
furlough work | 6 |
furlough ryan | 3 |
the perfect furlough | 2 |
furlough military | 2 |
civil furlough war | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "furlough"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | verlof (leave, pass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | liridalje, leje (allowance, authorization, leave, liberty, licence, license, order, pass, permission, permit, permittance, release, sanction), lejë (allowance, authorization, leave, liberty, licence, license, order, pass, permission, permit, permittance, release, sanction), i jap lejë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إذن (consequently, courtesy, ear, licence, license, lug, order, permission, then), إجازة (allowance, authorization, holiday, leave, permission, permissiveness, permit, rest, vacation, variance, warrant, warranty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отпуск (dismission), пускам в отпуск. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | dovolenka (permit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verlof (leave, pass, permission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | forpermeso (leave, pass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | päästää lomalle, lomauttaa, loma (gap, holidays, interval, leave, vacation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | permission. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | urlaub (exeat, holiday, leave, leave of absence, pass, vacation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άδεια απουσίασ (leave of absence), δίδω άδειαν απουσίασ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חופש" (freedom, holiday, leave, vac, vacation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | távozási engedély (exeat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | perlop (be on leave, leave), cuti (day-off, leave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | licenza (authorization, charter, leave, licence, license, patent, permission, permit, school leaving certificate, school-leaving examination), congedo (disbandment, discharge, dismissal, farewell, goodbye, leave, release). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 賜暇 (leave of absence), 休暇 (day off, holiday), 公暇 (leave of absence), 帰休 (leave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ききゅう (ask for, aspiring to, attempt, balloon, demand, emergency, leave, seek), しか (blemish, current price, deer, defect, dentistry, flaw, historian, Japanesepoetry, leave of absence, market price, one's own house, price of paper, price of silk thread, private house, the teacher's home), きゅうか (a nearby fire, a sudden fire, cone, day off, holiday, old family, summer), "うか (chrysanthemum, coin, depression, descent, effect, effectiveness, efficacy, engineering course, evaluation, fall, gelatinization, hardening, high price, landing, leave of absence, loud singing, marriage of an Imperial princess to a subject, merits and demerits, mineralize, overhead structure, public imposts, rating, result, school song, sclerosis, taxes, toilet, vulcanization, Yellow Peril). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | kied (assent, faculty, first, leave, pass, permission, permit, primary, sanction, senior; licence, sufferance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urloughfay licença (charter, comission, excuse, leave, liberty, license, loose, pass, patent, permission, permit). (various references) permisie (leave, pass), da concediu, concediu (dismissal, holidays, pleasuring, vacation). (various references) отпуск (clergyman's fortnight, clergyman's week, conge, hols, leave, temper, vac, vacations). (various references) odsustvo (absence, leave). (various references) permiso (admissibleness, dismissal, evaluation, leave, licence, license, light, pass, permission, permit, ratification), mando (command, commandment, direction, earnest, exigency, leadership, rule), licencia (degree, leave, licence, license, permission, permit). (various references) permittering (lay off, lay-off), permittera (lay off, stand off), permission (leave, leave of absence, permission), ge permission. (various references) การพักงาน. (various references) sıla izni vermek, sıla izni, izin (allowance, authorization, concession, consent, day off, excuse, green light, holiday, imprimatur, leave, liberty, pass, permission, permit, sanction, toleration, vac, vacation). (various references) відпустка (holidays, leave). (various references) phép nghỉ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle Dutch | 1100-1500 | ver-. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "furlough": furloughed, furloughing, furloughs. (additional references) | |
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"Furlough" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Durleigh, Farlow, Finlough, forlough, fourlough, frough, Furlow. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-h-l-o-r-u-u" | |
-3 letters: flour, fluor, ghoul, lough, rough. | |
-4 letters: flog, foul, four, frog, frug, fugu, furl, golf, gulf, guru, hour, hurl, lour, rolf. | |
-5 letters: flu, fog, foh, for, fou, fro, fug, fur, gor, gul, hog, hug, log, lug, our, rho, rug, ugh, ulu. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-h-l-o-r-u-u" | |
+1 letter: furloughs. | |
+2 letters: furloughed. | |
+3 letters: furloughing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 75 72 6C 6F 75 67 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. ..- .-. .-.. --- ..- --. .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110101 01110010 01101100 01101111 01110101 01100111 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F u r l o u g h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0075 0072 006C 006F 0075 0067 0068 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4087847881877374 |
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