compassionate leave

American  

[kuhm-pash-uhn-it leev] / kəmˈpæʃ ən ɪt ˈliv /

noun

compassionate leaves plural

1. Chiefly British. time off from work, or out of prison, granted to someone because of a death or health crisis in their family.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• compassionate leaves
  plural

Example Sentences

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compassionate leave

Konate returned early from compassionate leave to help Liverpool avert an injury crisis at the end of January but the centre-back conceded that things were never quite right.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

Instead it was Konate who rounded off the scoring in his first match since returning from compassionate leave after the death of his father.

From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026

Joe Gomez and Giovanni Leoni are out injured, while Ibrahima Konate is absent on compassionate leave following the death of his father.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

Speaker Nelly Mutti initially granted Ms Lungu 14 days of compassionate leave to mourn her father and return to parliament when it resumed in September.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025

Stokes has had a difficult few years, first taking compassionate leave from cricket in 2020 to be with his father Ged, who died later that year from brain cancer.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2022