[C,U] a period of time when sb, especially a teacher at a university, is allowed to stop their normal work in order to study or travel:
to take a year's sabbatical * a sabbatical term / year * He's on sabbatical.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is sabbatical a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sabbatical is tagged as noun.
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