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SICK LEAVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sick leave mean?
• SICK LEAVE (noun)
The noun SICK LEAVE has 1 sense:
1. a leave of absence from work because of illness
Familiarity information: SICK LEAVE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A leave of absence from work because of illness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("sick leave" is a kind of...):
leave; leave of absence (the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty)
Context examples
—“that I have undergone so much in this distant place, as to have decided to leave it at all hazards; on sick leave, if I can; on total resignation, if that is not to be obtained.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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