Dictionary Entry
furlough
furlough is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence.
- 2transitive verb
To furnish with a furlough; to grant leave of absence to, as to an offcer or soldier.
- 3noun
a temporary leave of absence from military duty
- 4verb
grant a leave to
"The prisoner was furloughed for the weekend to visit her children"
- 5verb
dismiss, usually for economic reasons
"She was laid off together with hundreds of other workers when the company downsized"
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