- 1permission to leave your duties for a period of time, especially for soldiers working in a foreign country to go home on furlough a six-week furlough
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- 2a period of time during which workers are told not to come to work, usually because there is not enough money to pay them
- 3permission for a prisoner to leave prison for a period of time
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