COMPASSIONATE LEAVE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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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