leave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːv/
ipa: /liv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: leaves
Etymology: From Middle English leve, from Old English lēaf (“permission, privilege”), from Proto-Germanic *laubō, *laubą (“permission, privilege, favour, worth”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“to love, hold dear”). Cognate with obsolete German Laube (“permission”), Swedish lov (“permission”), Icelandic leyfi (“permission”). Related to Dutch verlof, German Erlaubnis. See also love.
Senses: examples: text: I've just been given three weeks' leave by my boss — I don't think I still have some leave owing to me.
synonyms: word: annual leave
word: holiday
word: annual leave
word: break
word: day off
word: getaway
word: holiday
word: leave
word: leave of absence
word: pause
word: recess
word: time away
word: time off
word: vac
word: vacation
word: vaca
word: vacay
glosses: Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
examples: text: Might I beg leave to accompany you?
text: The applicant now seeks leave to appeal and, if leave be granted, to appeal against these sentences.
text: Since I have your good leave to go away, / I will make haste: but, till I come again, / No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay, / Nor rest be interposer 'twixt us twain.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
topics: law
synonyms: authorisation
consent
glosses: Permission.
examples: text: I took my leave of the gentleman without a backward glance.
glosses: Farewell, departure.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the noun leave
word: absence without leave
sense: Terms derived from the noun leave
word: absent over leave
sense: Terms derived from the noun leave
word: absent without leave
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word: administrative leave
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word: annual leave
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word: by your leave
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word: compassionate leave
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word: Dutch leave
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word: family leave
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word: flexi-leave
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word: French leave
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word: furternity leave
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word: gardening leave
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word: garden leave
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word: leaveism
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word: leave of absence
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word: leave-taking
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word: leavetime
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word: long service leave
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word: maternity leave
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word: mat leave
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word: on leave
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word: parental leave
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word: paternity leave
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word: pat leave
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word: pawternity leave
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word: shore leave
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word: sick leave
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word: study leave
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word: take French leave
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word: take a French leave
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word: take leave
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word: take one's leave
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word: terminal leave
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word: ticket-of-leave
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word: ticket of leave
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word: wayleave
sense: Terms derived from the noun leave
word: way leave