sabbatical year

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noun

Also called sabbatical leave . (in a school, college, university, etc.) a year, usually every seventh, of release from normal teaching duties granted to a professor, as for study or travel.

Chiefly Biblical. a yearlong period to be observed by Jews once every seven years, during which the fields were to be left untilled and all agricultural labors were to be suspended. Leviticus 25.Compare jubilee (def. 6).

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Origin of sabbatical year

First recorded in 1625–35

Words nearby sabbatical year

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How to use sabbatical year in a sentence

However, more than 20 players on the ballot this year were probably worthy of being enshrined in Cooperstown.
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The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.
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Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
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Grindr introduced the feature themselves in October the same year and called it ‘tribes.’
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In the last year, her fusion exercise class has attracted a cult following and become de rigueur among the celebrity set.
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In the year of misery, of agony and suffering in general he had endured, he had settled upon one theory.
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The great plague of this and the subsequent year broke out at St. Giles, London.
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Twice a year the formal invitation was sent out by the old nobleman to his only son, and to his two nephews.
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After about the forty-fifth year it becomes gradually less; after seventy-five years it is about one-half the amount given.
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The clink of the stone-masons' chisels had resounded year after year from morning till night.
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British Dictionary definitions for sabbatical year

sabbatical year

noun

(often capitals) Bible a year during which the land was to be left uncultivated, debts annulled, etc, supposed to be observed every seventh year by the ancient Israelites according to Leviticus 25

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