annual leave

American  

[an-yoo-uhl leev] / ˈæn ju əl ˈliv /

noun

• annual leaves
  plural

1. the amount of time or number of paid work days in a year that an employee is entitled to take off work for vacation or personal reasons.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• annual leaves
  plural

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annual leave

Captains are offered a monthly salary package in excess of $18,000 and benefits ranging from concessional flight tickets for family and friends, free flights for annual leave, and open-ended contracts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

A survey by charity Pregnant Then Screwed found 89% of parents had used annual leave to cover holiday childcare, while a third had taken unpaid leave.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

You should agree with your employer how to deal with the absence – for example, by using annual leave or taking unpaid leave.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Tighe also said that this year the company was unable to grant all of the annual leave pilots are contractually entitled to because of the shortages.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026

In special and meritorious cases where to limit the annual leave to fourteen days in any one calendar year would work peculiar hardship, it may, in the discretion of the of the department, be extended.

From Mining Laws of Ohio, 1921 by The Department of Industrial Relations