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1819 Calcutta Jrnl. 23 July 317 The Most Noble the Governor General in Council..deems it proper to lay down a scale of Furlough Pay and Pensions to Warrant Officers.

1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 96 The salaries are large..the furlough allowance and retiring annuity handsome and all sufficient.

1905 Lichfield Mercury 22 Sept. 2/4 In one of the pockets was found an army furlough paper.

1942 Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. 5 Jan. 11/6 (caption) They made room and set up chow for..eight soldiers from Fort Eustis, Va., whose furlough journey to their homes in Canton, O., skidded to a halt in a collision with a trailer-truck.

1995 G. LaFree in D. F. Hawkins Ethnicity, Race, & Crime viii. 169 The Bush campaign made the Massachusetts prison furlough program a central issue in its election contest.

2009 Independent 22 July 20/3 Many state employees will be asked to continue taking three furlough days off a month without salary, equal to a 14 per cent pay cut.