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shore leave
noun
- permission to spend time ashore, usually 48 hours or more, granted a member of a ship's company.
- the time spent ashore during such leave.
shore leave
Word History and Origins
Origin of shore leave1
Example Sentences
At the end of Star Trek V, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy returned to Yosemite to resume their shore leave, but the film ends with the Enterprise trio once again singing "Row Row Row Your Boat" around the campfire.
In December, the International Labour Organization ruled that governments had failed to uphold the minimum standards of seafarer rights as laid out by the 2006 Maritime Labor Convention, including access to shore leave, medical care and repatriation.
And they flock to bars, offering to buy rounds for sailors on shore leave.
But of course the Baron had arranged it all, for it was at his instigation, I recollect, that the crew had been given shore-leave.
You get a hundred and sixty dollars for the trip, and you'll have about two weeks shore leave on the other side.
Thus the inevitable informing larrikin, eager to cadge a drink from the tourist on shore leave.
But Coburn doubted very much if they were as completely unarmed as men on shore leave usually are.
There were some Italian police in view, but most of the men about were American seamen, ostensibly on shore leave.
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