From en.wiktionary.org:
[Furlough]
** English
[2009]
*** Etymology
From [en], probably from [en] (possibly via [en]), from the verb [gml], from
[en] + [osx].
From Middle Low German also [de], [da]. [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. A leave of absence or vacation .
1. [en] especially one grant ed to a member of the armed forces , or to a prisoner .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1957 | author=w:James Baldwin | chapter=w:Sonny’s Blues | title=w:Going to Meet the Man | publisher=Dial | year_published=1965 | url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=Gc1WAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
|passage=And I had a lot of things on my mind and I pretty well forgot my
promise to Mama until I got shipped home on a special FURLOUGH for her
funeral.}}
1. [en] especially one grant ed to a missionary .
1. The document s authorizing such leave.
2. A period of unpaid time off, used by an employer to reduce costs.
3. * [en]
**** Quotations
- [en]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[leave of absence]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [army] [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [prisoner] [de] , [prisoner] [de] , [prisoner] [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk] [military] , [uk] [prisoner]
[trans-bottom]
[documents authorizing leave of absence]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
[trans-bottom]
[period of unpaid time off used by an employer to reduce costs]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Norwegian Bokmål: [nb]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To grant a furlough to (someone).
2. [en] To have (an employee) not work in order to reduce costs; to send (someone) on furlough.
3. * [en]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[to grant a furlough]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Ido: [io]
[trans-bottom]
[to bar (an employee) from working]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: mettre au [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Norwegian:
[trans-bottom]
*** Further reading
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