on furlough

idiom

: with permission to be away or required to be away for a period of time from the place where one is stationed or working : experiencing such a time away

soldiers going home on furlough

workers on furlough from their jobs

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With more people on furlough, laid off or with additional time on their hands, conversations on social media increased around defrauding stimulus programs like the Paycheck Protection Program and increased unemployment benefits, McKenna said. —

Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2025 In the case of the 2018-19 shutdown, five of the 12 appropriations bills went into effect, funding Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense and limiting the number of employees on furlough. —

Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024 Nardin, for example, put approximately 15% of workers on furlough, the company’s chief executive officer told Bloomberg last month. —

Garth Friesen, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024 Witte and his wife were on furlough back in the United States and had been in the country for a couple of weeks. —

Kathryn Muchnick, Journal Sentinel, 2 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for on furlough