book off

British

verb

to take a period of absence from work due to illness

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Example Sentences

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And: Can you grab that book off the top shelf for me?

From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2023

If you take my book off a shelf, you keep it away from that shelf, but you hardly keep it away from readers.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2022

You start the book off with talking about dance marathons.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2021

He seems to imply that this task is left to the reader, but that leaves too much to us, and lets the author of this stimulating book off the hook too easily.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2021

I took the slim book off the shelf and opened the cover.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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