furlough

A leave of absence or vacation.

And I had a lot of things on my mind and I pretty well forgot my promise to Mama until I got shipped home on a special furlough for her funeral.

A leave of absence or vacation.

The documents authorizing such leave.

A period of unpaid time off, used by an employer to reduce costs.

The state estimates the one-day-a-month furlough spread over the 18 months of the plan would amount to a 5 percent cut in pay.

To grant a furlough to (someone).

To have (an employee) not work in order to reduce costs; to send (someone) on furlough.

This implies, for example, that firms should not revise their estimated production capacity downwards when furloughing workers, but should do so after laying off staff permanently.

A surname.