day releasen.
/ˌdeɪ rᵻˈliːs/, U.S. /ˈdeɪ rəˌlis/ 1. Chiefly British. A system whereby employees are allowed days off from work to undertake education or training without loss of pay. Frequently attributive, as day-release student, day-release course, etc.
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society > education > [noun] > systematic education > systems of
university extension1839
Philanthropinism1842
Arnoldismc1845
co-education1852
Pestalozzianism1859
kindergartenism1872
secularism1872
community education1873
Froebelism1879
co-ed1886
extramuralism1892
vocationalism1901
heurism1909
sandwich1913
Montessori1917
Montessorianism1917
Juku system1931
polytechnization1932
day release1936
essentialism1939
comprehensivization1958
multitracking1989
1936 Times 3 Oct. 9/3 It may also well be that to the young employee, by a system of day release, the connexion between book learning and works experience is made more real and convincing.
1955 Times 23 May 6/2 In part-time day-release courses an effective proportion..of the students' time should be devoted to non-vocational work.
2014 Barry & District News (Wales) (Nexis) 14 Feb. Zoe, a second year apprentice junior stylist..and day-release student at Cardiff & Vale College's Barry campus.
2. The release of a person from a prison or other institution for all or part of a day, for the purpose of undertaking training, education, or work (cf. work release n. at work n. Compounds 3), or for compassionate reasons, as to attend the funeral of a family member.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > work release
work furlough1918
work release1952
day release1964
1964 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 25 Nov. 4/1 An Iowa legislative study committee this week recommended a program of ‘day release’ for both county jail prisoners and inmates of state penal institutions.
1977 Brit. Jrnl. Law & Soc. 4 214 At one tribunal observed it appeared that the patient, who was on day release, sometimes returned late to the hospital.
2000 Independent (Nexis) 5 Mar. 29 His successor, Lord Home, was treated largely as a kindly old lunatic out on day release from the local asylum.
2013 Daily Star (Nexis) 29 Oct. 30 Steph Stokes is given day release from jail, shackled to a prison officer, to go to the funeral of her father.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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