Furlough

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Furlough \Fur"lough\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Furloughed}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Furloughing}.] (Mil.)
     To furnish with a furlough; to grant leave of absence to, as
     to an officer or soldier. Furmonty

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Furlough \Fur"lough\, n. [Prob. fr. D. verlof, fr. a prefix akin
     to E. for + the root of E. lief, and akin to Dan. forlov, Sw.
     f["o]rlof, G. verlaub permission. See {Life}, a.] (Mil.)
     Leave of absence; especially, leave given to an officer or
     soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also,
     the document granting leave of absence.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  furlough
       n : a temporary leave of absence from military duty
       v 1: dismiss, usually for economic reasons; "She was laid off
            together with hundreds of other workers when the company
            downsized" [syn: {lay off}]
       2: grant a leave to; "The prisoner was furloughed for the
          weekend to visit her children"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "furlough":
     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