gardening leave

noun

1. informal,  a period during which an employee who is about to leave a company continues to receive a salary but does not work

Example Sentences

He is currently working out a period of gardening leave after agreeing his terms of departure from the Milton Keynes team and has been linked to Aston Martin and Haas among others.

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His latest campaign ended with him on gardening leave after the Hoops suffered a 5-0 defeat by already-promoted Burnley in April.

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In the end, United paid £10m for Ashworth, who ended up on gardening leave for the same amount of time he was actually in post at United.

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The 53-year-old officially joined the club on 1 July after spending five months on gardening leave at Newcastle.

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To add to the sense of change, in July Dan Ashworth and Omar Berrada finally came off respective periods of gardening leave to take up the sporting director and chief executive roles.

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