leave

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noun

1 period of time when you do not go to work

ADJECTIVE

▪ annual

▪ paid, unpaid

▪ extended, indefinite, weekend

▪ compassionate (BrE), family (AmE), maternity, medical (AmE), parental, paternity, sabbatical, sick, study

▪ administrative (AmE)

▪ gardening (= period during which a person does not work but remains employed by a company in order to prevent them working for another company) (BrE)

▪

She handed in her resignation and was put on three months' gardening leave.

▪ home, shore

VERB + LEAVE

▪ be entitled to, get, have

▪

How much annual leave do you get?

▪

I still have some leave left this year.

▪ go on, spend, take, use, use up

▪

She spent most of her leave with her family.

▪

I still have some leave to use up.

▪ cancel (BrE)

▪

When the war broke out all leave was cancelled.

▪ give sb, grant sb

▪ apply for

LEAVE + NOUN

▪ entitlement (esp. BrE)

PREPOSITION

▪ on leave

▪

She's on leave until the end of the month.

2 official permission to do sth

ADJECTIVE

▪ special (BrE)

VERB + LEAVE

▪ request

▪

He asked leave to absent himself for four days.

▪ give sb, grant sb

▪ obtain (esp. BrE)

▪ refuse sb (BrE)

PREPOSITION

▪ by sb's leave (esp. BrE)

▪

The appeal can only be brought by leave of the trial judge.

▪ with sb's leave, without sb's leave

▪

No application may be made without the leave of the court.

PHRASES

▪ absent without leave

▪ leave of absence

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verb

VERB + LEAVE

▪ decide to

▪ intend to, plan to, want to

▪ be ready to

▪

We were all packed and ready to leave.

▪ be about to, be going to

▪

Did you want something? I was just about to leave.

▪ threaten to

▪

My secretary has threatened to leave.

▪ attempt to, try to

▪

They were caught trying to leave the country.

▪ refuse to

▪ be compelled to, be forced to, be obliged to

▪ ask sb to, order sb to

▪

They were being extremely rowdy and the manager had to ask them to leave.

▪ allow sb to, let sb

▪

I wanted to leave but they wouldn't let me.

▪ enable sb to

PREPOSITION

▪ for

▪

They left for Scotland this morning.

Leave is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑bus, ↑cubicle, ↑employee, ↑expedition, ↑ferry, ↑flight, ↑path, ↑procession, ↑ship, ↑train, ↑troops, ↑vessel

Leave is used with these nouns as the object: ↑academy, ↑address, ↑airport, ↑airspace, ↑area, ↑arena, ↑army, ↑atmosphere, ↑bag, ↑barracks, ↑bedside, ↑bequest, ↑blank, ↑boyfriend, ↑bruise, ↑bus, ↑business, ↑cabinet, ↑camp, ↑car, ↑church, ↑clearance, ↑clue, ↑college, ↑comment, ↑committee, ↑company, ↑confines, ↑convent, ↑country, ↑crater, ↑crumb, ↑dent, ↑deposit, ↑desk, ↑dock, ↑earth, ↑education, ↑elevator, ↑employment, ↑estate, ↑field, ↑fingerprint, ↑firm, ↑flat, ↑fold, ↑footprint, ↑fortune, ↑gap, ↑garbage, ↑gash, ↑ground, ↑group, ↑harbour, ↑highway, ↑home, ↑homeland, ↑hospital, ↑husband, ↑impression, ↑imprint, ↑inheritance, ↑instruction, ↑job, ↑key, ↑land, ↑legacy, ↑litter, ↑lover, ↑mall, ↑mansion, ↑margin, ↑mark, ↑mess, ↑message, ↑military, ↑ministry, ↑monastery, ↑motorway, ↑nest, ↑note, ↑office, ↑orbit, ↑party, ↑path, ↑port, ↑post, ↑practice, ↑premises, ↑profession, ↑region, ↑restaurant, ↑restroom, ↑ring, ↑road, ↑room, ↑roundabout, ↑rubbish, ↑safety, ↑sanctuary, ↑scar, ↑scene, ↑scent, ↑school, ↑scope, ↑scratch, ↑seat, ↑service, ↑shelter, ↑shore, ↑signature, ↑smear, ↑staff, ↑stage, ↑stain, ↑station, ↑survivor, ↑table, ↑taste, ↑team, ↑territory, ↑theatre, ↑time, ↑tip, ↑town, ↑trace, ↑track, ↑trail, ↑train, ↑tunnel, ↑university, ↑vacancy, ↑vacuum, ↑valley, ↑vicinity, ↑void, ↑washing-up, ↑welfare, ↑widow, ↑wife, ↑will, ↑workforce, ↑yard, ↑zone