sabbatical leave
Noun
Meaning
a leave usually taken every seventh year
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During the winter semester of 1968-9 Adorno was on sabbatical leave from the university and thus able to dedicate himself to the completion of his book of aesthetics.
On a sabbatical leave that year, he headed the Methodology Group at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria.
He is currently on sabbatical leave in France.
It plainly acknowledges that sabbatical leave for judges was an “agreement in principle” subject to “the development of administrative arrangements to give effect to the facility.”
She also took sabbatical leave to study zoology and neurophysiology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.