home leaven.
/ˌhəʊm ˈliːv/, U.S. /ˈˌhoʊm ˈliv/ Leave to visit one's home or family, esp. that which enables a soldier or official working abroad to visit his or her home country; a period of such leave.
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society > leisure > [noun] > leave of absence > type of
annual leave1825
parental leave1847
home leave1860
study leave1894
maternity leave1919
mat leave1947
family leave1968
paternity leave1973
1860 T. Mercer Rep. 26 May in Rep. of Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions (1861) II. 152 At the magistracy the chief seat has been long vacant, and the holder of the second is absent on home leave.
1881 L. Adams Lady Deane II. 95 The captain of the light company had been on home leave.
1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. p. viii Their short home-leaves gave them sudden changes to the tense home atmosphere.
1946 Nature 7 Sept. 320/2 Home-leave at regular intervals..should be provided for officers whose homes are not in the Colony in which they serve.
1970 N. Morris & G. Hawkins Honest Politician's Guide to Crime Control (1972) v. 128 Some countries develop systems of home leave, allowing all but a few prisoners regular home leave after part of their sentence has been served.
2006 R. Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in Emerald City (2007) iii. 61 With tours of duty that sometimes stretched to six months without a home leave, some with wedding rings began to refer to themselves as ‘operationally single’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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