Definition of "sick leave" []

• Paid absence from work allowed an employee because of sickness. (noun)

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• "General Featherston returned from sick leave and resumed command of his brigade, which Lee had planned to give to Carnot Posey."
• "On her bridge, returned from sick leave and restored to self-confidence, was Franz Hipper, who predicted to the officers standing near him that by afternoon, they would be “at it hammer and tongs” with the British."
• "It was secluded, well drained, and being almost bare of shrubs and trees, was open to the sun and the wind, [Expxex Experience had shown that yellow fever could be kept out of a military reservation less than a mile from an epidemic center, so the site's distance from Camp Columbia was both safe and convenient.] [and free from mosquitoes] Carroll was on sick leave until the middle of November, but"