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noun Navy .
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.
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Origin of shore leave First recorded in 1905–10
Words nearby shore leave shore bug ,
shore crab ,
shore dinner ,
shore fly ,
shorefront ,
shore leave ,
shoreless ,
shoreline ,
shore patrol ,
shoreside ,
shore terrace
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How to use shore leave in a sentence 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.
“We all shook hands and my client told me to leave,” he said.
Some seventy-plus countries currently offer some paternity leave or parental leave days reserved for the father.
But outside of a few European countries and Quebec, this leave is usually two weeks or less and usually unpaid.
Certainly paid paternity leave is part of it (and in the U.S., we need paid maternity and paternity leave).
And then when businesses leave the state, they want to know why.
They are very urgent questions; our sons and daughters will have to begin to deal with them from the moment they leave college.
As Perker said this, he looked towards the door, with an evident desire to render the leave-taking as brief as possible.
Now for the tempering of the Gudgeons, I leave it to the judgment of the Workman; but a word or two of the polishing of it.
We can do as we like with Hindu and Mussalman so long as we leave their respective religions untouched.
“You must leave this house this moment,” she cried, with a stamp, with gleaming eyes and very pale.
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British Dictionary definitions for shore leave
noun navy
time spent ashore during leave
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