garden leave
C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A period during which an employee serving notice is required to stay away from work while remaining employed and paid.
The bank placed the departing trader on six months' garden leave to keep him from joining a competitor.
Business noun
A period when a departing employee is paid to stay away from work through their notice.
They put her on garden leave the moment she resigned to keep her off the client list.
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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