furlough
B2CEFR level
42/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A temporary period of mandatory leave during which an employee is retained but not required to work.
Thousands of staff were placed on furlough rather than made redundant during the downturn.
Business verb
To place staff on temporary leave, often unpaid, while keeping them employed.
Rather than lay them off, we furloughed the whole events team through the downturn.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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