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COMPASSIONATE LEAVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does compassionate leave mean?
• COMPASSIONATE LEAVE (noun)
The noun COMPASSIONATE LEAVE has 1 sense:
1. (military) leave granted in an emergency such as family sickness or death
Familiarity information: COMPASSIONATE LEAVE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(military) leave granted in an emergency such as family sickness or death
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("compassionate leave" is a kind of...):
leave; leave of absence (the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
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