maternity leave

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] a period of time when a woman temporarily leaves her job to have a baby

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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.

Same word in other sources

maternity leaveEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus maternity leaveEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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Is maternity leave a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, maternity leave is tagged as noun.

Does maternity leave appear elsewhere on Lughet?

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maternity leave