family leave

noun

: a usually unpaid leave of absence for an employee to attend to family concerns (such as a serious illness or the care of an infant)

Examples of family leave in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The funding does not include paid family leave for care and bonding time with the baby for either parent. —Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026

Officials have therefore made boosting birth rates a priority, rolling out a slew of measures including subsidies, child care support and greater family leave. —Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC news, 14 May 2026

The top issues on Villegas’ website are Medicare for all, universal childcare and family leave, as well as holding corporate polluters accountable and ending corporate ownership of single-family homes. —Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 29 Apr. 2026

Police later took statements about the incident and created a report containing Sarabia’s account that the driver allegedly did not let the family leave the vehicle and then struck her and one of her kids, the complaint continued. —David Chiu, PEOPLE, 18 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1968, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for family leave

• achieve
• believe
• conceive
• deceive
• naive
• perceive
• receive
• relieve
• reprieve
• retrieve
• breve
• cleave