sick leave

noun

1. leave from duty, work, or the like, granted because of illness.

sick leave

noun

1. leave of absence from work through illness

Word History and Origins

Origin of sick leave¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

Part-time workers get proportionate amounts of sick leave and would be eligible for a proportionate additional amount from the fund.

From Washington Post

We need to be encouraging leadership, both at the state and federal levels, to protect people, to have paid sick leave for people if they become symptomatic.

From ProPublica

Many of them don’t speak English and aren’t granted paid sick leave.

From ProPublica

Slaughterhouses, long notorious for their terrible working conditions, have been coronavirus hotspots, in some cases because they responded to the coronavirus crisis by telling employees not to take any sick leave for any reason.

From Vox

If teachers take sick leave Tuesday they could argue they are simply taking paid leave.

From Washington Post

Is there any chance the potential 2016 hopeful will stand up to the right and embrace paid sick leave?

From The Daily Beast

Paid sick leave, personhood, you name it, all of them went in the progressive direction, most of them by overwhelmingly margins.

From The Daily Beast

For instance, this year both New York and New Jersey enacted laws guaranteeing paid sick leave to small-business employees.

From The Daily Beast

The revelations may sound absurd to the rest of the world, but in Italy faking sick leave is a national pastime.

From The Daily Beast

The living-wage and paid-sick-leave bills that set progressives and labor against Bloomberg?

From The Daily Beast

The two former were enjoying their month of service on shore, the latter was on sick-leave, but convalescent.

From Project Gutenberg

I had taken the doctor to see him, got him out on sick leave, and when he was put back again gave bail for him.

From Project Gutenberg

It befell, therefore, that he spent the winter on sick leave in New York.

From Project Gutenberg

Were it not my duty to hold out for the benefit of my wife and children, I would certainly apply for sick leave.

From Project Gutenberg

They may detain you there, give you a period of sick leave, or invalid you out of the Service.

From Project Gutenberg