Definition of "shore leave" []

• Leave of absence granted to a sailor to go ashore. (noun)

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• "In 1869, during a shore leave in Hobart, struck with some indeterminate disease, Lanney died in his room at the Dog and Partridge Hotel."
• "Sailors alternated shore leave with three or four days of shipboard preparations, with most of the men of VF-51 making time to visit John Moore in the hospital in Yokohama."
• "IT WAS NOT CAPTAIN KIRK WHO FOUND THE FIRST loose end of the knot of time and space whose center was Starbase Twelve, but Lieutenants Uhura and Sulu, returning to the transporter section disgracefully late from the Wonder Bar, with eight minutes to go of a twelve-hour shore leave on the base."