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Definition: Leave Of Absence |
Leave Of AbsenceNoun1. The period of time during which you are absent from work or duty; "a ten day's leave to visit his mother". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Law | Permission to be absent from work. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: Leave Of AbsenceSynonym: leave (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Leave Of Absence |
| English words defined with "leave of absence": furlough ♦ pass ♦ sick leave, subbing, substituting. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "leave of absence": Family Leave ♦ Parental Leave. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Leave of Absence (1994) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Political Economy | Finland | Aho took a one-year leave of absence in 2000-2001 to lecture and study at Harvard University. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Earlier this month, he took a leave of absence from his job to fight for tougher gun safety laws. |
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Expression using "leave of absence": on leave of absence. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
leave of absence | 55 |
family medical leave of absence | 10 |
medical leave of absence | 7 |
leave of absence policy | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "leave of absence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | urlaub (exeat, furlough, holiday, leave, pass, vacation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άδεια απουσίασ (furlough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rövid szabadságon van (to be on leave of absence), kimenője van (to be on leave of absence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 賜暇 (furlough), 公暇 (furlough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しか (blemish, current price, deer, defect, dentistry, flaw, furlough, historian, Japanesepoetry, market price, one's own house, price of paper, price of silk thread, private house, the teacher's home), "うか (chrysanthemum, coin, depression, descent, effect, effectiveness, efficacy, engineering course, evaluation, fall, furlough, gelatinization, hardening, high price, landing, 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eavelay ofay absenceay me deixe só. (various references) în permisie (on leave, on leave of absence). (various references) tjänstledighet, permission (furlough, leave, permission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-e-e-e-f-l-n-o-s-v" | |
-5 letters: beefaloes, canoeable, enfeebles, fleabanes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 61 76 65 4F 66 41 62 73 65 6E 63 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01000001 01100010 01110011 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e a v e   O f   A b s e n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0061 0076 0065 004F 0066 0041 0062 0073 0065 006E 0063 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)467167887124972235688571806971 |
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