noun [U,C]
1 permission to leave your duties for a period of time, especially for soldiers working in a foreign country:
to go home on furlough * a six-week furlough
2 (AmE) permission for a prisoner to leave prison for a period of time
3 (AmE) a period of time during which workers are told not to come to work, usually because there is not enough money to pay them
furlough verb [VN]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for furlough is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does furlough appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — furlough appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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