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Shore leave   /ʃɔr liv/   Listen
Shore leave

noun
1.
Leave granted to a sailor or naval officer.  Synonym: liberty.






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"Shore leave" Quotes from Famous Books



... continued together in the same ship for the matter of five years, and then master Will and I shipped in another Indiaman, and we were in the 'Birmingham' for three years or more. One day we lay off the Cape on the home passage, and a half dozen of us got shore leave for a few hours, and I among the rest, and somehow I got rather more grog aboard than I could stow, and when I came off, the captain swore at me like a pirate, and after I got sober triced me up to the main ...
— The Sea-Witch - or, The African Quadroon A Story of the Slave Coast • Maturin Murray

... naturally fall on the men of the cruiser," said Lieutenant Charpentier, "but for the fact that sub-lieutenant Janviers here assures me that no men have had shore leave—that none has been on shore since we anchored here except under command of an officer. I do not know that you would suspect our men, but I am glad that there is now no chance for suspicion to fall ...
— Tarzan of the Apes • Edgar Rice Burroughs



Words linked to "Shore leave" :   liberty, leave, leave of absence



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