Furlough

Noun

 * 1) A leave of absence or vacation.
 * 2) 🇺🇸 especially one granted to a member of the armed forces, or to a prisoner.
 * 3)  especially one granted to a missionary.


 * 1) The documents authorizing such leave.
 * 2) 🇺🇸 A period of unpaid time off, used by an employer to reduce costs.

Verb

 * 1)  To grant a furlough to (someone).

Thesaurus
AWOL, French leave, abscondence, absence, absence without leave, absentation, absenteeism, absenting, boot, bounce, break, bump, bust, can, cashier, cut, cyclical unemployment, day off, default, defrock, degrade, demote, departure, deplume, depose, deprive, disappearance, disbar, discharge, disemploy, dismiss, displace, displume, drum out, escape, excused absence, expel, fire, fleeing, give the ax, give the gate, holiday, hooky, inoccupation, kick, kick upstairs, lay off, layoff, leave, leave of absence, leaving, let go, let out, liberty, make redundant, nonappearance, nonattendance, normal unemployment, paid holiday, paid vacation, pension off, read out of, release, remove, replace, retire, running away, sabbatical, sabbatical leave, sabbatical year, sack, seasonal unemployment, separate forcibly, shore leave, sick leave, strip, superannuate, surplus, suspend, technological unemployment, time off, truancy, truantism, turn off, turn out, unemployment, unemployment insurance, unexcused absence, unfrock, vacation, weekend

Etymology
From verlof:, cognate with Danish forlov: (loaned from ), German Verlaub:.

Noun

 * Czech: (army)
 * Dutch: verlof
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 * Finnish: lomalupa


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Verb

 * Finnish: