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family leave
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family leave

noun

Definition of FAMILY LEAVE

: a usually unpaid leave of absence for an employee to attend to family concerns (as a serious illness or the care of an infant)
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First Known Use of FAMILY LEAVE

1981

Rhymes with FAMILY LEAVE

apperceive, basket weave, by-your-leave, disbelieve, flutter sleeve, interleave, interweave, make-believe, misbelieve, on one's sleeve, preconceive, raglan sleeve, satin weave, semibreve, Tel Aviv, undeceive, up one's sleeve

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