furlough

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  1. noun A leave of absence or vacation, especially one granted to a member of the armed forces.
  2. noun A usually temporary layoff from work.
  3. noun A leave of absence from prison granted to a prisoner.
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  • He then determined to ask a furlough, and retire from the army for a few months, provided the furlough was granted without his receiving pay. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.
  • According to the United States Office of Personnel Management Web site, "a furlough is the placing of an employee in a temporary nonduty, nonpay status because of lack of work or funds, or other nondisciplinary reasons." —  Technician RSS
  • The Q&A added a furlough was the "fairest and the least damaging" way of cutting costs as revenues slumped. —  Press Gazette Latest News
  • For the more adventurous who have some money in the bank, a furlough is the "perfect time" to bring up the idea of a long-desired sabbatical to senior management, says Julie Gebauer, managing director at human resources consulting firm Towers Perrin. —  USATODAY.com News - Top Stories
  • (WOOD) - If you're a blue collar worker, the notion of a furlough is nothing new. —  No Stories found
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Alteration of vorloffe, furlogh, from Dutch verlof, from Middle Dutch; see leubh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. The spelling furloe occurs in the 18th century, but furlough appears to be the earliest spelling (as in Blount's Gloss., ed. 1674). As the spelling furlough does not follow that of the orig. language, it was prob. intended to be phonetic (from a military point of view), the gh perhaps as f and the accent on the second syllable; from Dutch verlof, leave, furlough, = Low German verlöf = G. dial. verlaub (these prob. of Scandinavian origin), from Danish forlov, leave, permission, furlough, leave of absence, = Swedish förlof, leave, pardon; a form (with prefix for-, för- = English for -1) equivalent to the older Danish orlov, leave of absence, furlough, = Swedish orlof, dismission, discharge, = Icelandic orlof, leave, = Dutch oorlof. leave, = Old High German Middle High German urloup, German urlaub, leave of absence, furlough, properly the abstract noun of a verb representing (approximately) by Icelandic orlofa. allow, and by Old High German irloubōn, Middle High German erlouben, German erlauben = Anglo-Saxon āly¯fan, āliéfan = Gothic (Moesogothic) uslaubjan, leave, permit, from Gothic (Moesogothic) us- (= Anglo-Saxon ā- = Old High German ar-, ir-, unaccented; Anglo-Saxon or- = Old High German ur- = Icelandic or-, accented) + laubjan (in comp.), leave: see a-, or-, for-, and leave, v. Furlough thus ult. contains the elements for- and leave.
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