sick leave 
noun [mass noun]
Leave of absence granted because of illness: he took a week’s sick leave she was on sick leave for two months...
- When PC Furness went on sick leave her absence on the streets prompted juvenile nuisance to increase on her beat.
- Grocon wants greater control over rostered days off, sick leave, annual leave and working hours.
- Most apparent in this regard is the absence of adequate sick leave, maternity provision, and child health care.
- food hygiene
- foodie
- fooding
- food-insecure
- food insecurity
- food intolerance
- food irradiation
- foodism
- foodist
- food journal
- foodless
- food lift
- food mile
- food mill
- food mixer
- food pantry
- food parcel
- food poisoning
- food processing
- food processor
- food pyramid
- food-rent
- food scare
- food science
- food scientist