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

Her supervisor allegedly began treating Baker differently after she was injured in a fall in early 2023 and ultimately had to take family leave to recover. —Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025

Combs’ family leave court to media scrum, supporters Sean Combs’s family left the courthouse after his sentencing to face a media scrum. —Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025

When Kimberly and her family leave the New Jersey suburbs under dubious circumstances, Kimberly reevaluates her life while dealing with her hypochondriac mother, alcoholic father, scam-artist aunt, her own mortality and her first love. —Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025

That means higher wages, affordable childcare, paid family leave, and strong public services—especially for single parents, who too often carry the burden alone. —Stephanie Psaki, Time, 18 Aug. 2025

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