terminal leave
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7.0
- noun
- /ˈtɜrnəməl liːv/
- Formal
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licencia terminal
- After months of service, he was finally able to take his terminal leave before returning to civilian life.
That next three months over the summer was my terminal leave.
- That next three months over the summer was my terminal leave.
Examples
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I'll spend my terminal leave looking for a place big enough for Carol and the kids.
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Not collecting your terminal leave pay... ...dropping all our friends back East.
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I'm willing to put up every dime of my terminal leave pay-- a thousand bucks.
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She planned a family trip to Hawaii during her terminal leave from the military.
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On his terminal leave, he took time to relax and spend time with friends before his discharge.
Synonyms
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3.8
Official permission to be absent from work or duty
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3.9
A period when someone is officially allowed to be away from work or school
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both constituents directly contribute to the meaning: 'terminal' = final/end and 'leave' = authorized absence, so together they compose the notion of a final period of authorized absence before discharge. This is a straightforward, compositional military term and follows common cross‑linguistic patterns of combining 'final' + 'leave', so a B1 learner who knows the two words should be able to infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Terminal leave comes from the military: terminal means 'at the end' and leave means time off. It is the final paid time off a service member takes while still officially in the service before being 'discharged', so the phrase means the last leave before leaving the service.