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furlough
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    The company furloughed employees on the third shift.
    furloughed = ordered not do come to work
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    Well, if you're on furlough you must know when you have to be back.  (source)
    furlough = temporary leave from work or duty

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    I had to grant him a furlough.  (source)
    furlough = temporary leave from work or duty
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    Other guys would get furloughs and not return—but were eventually caught.  (source)
    furloughs = temporary releases from prison
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    He was headed back to Puerto Plata after a three-night furlough to meet his newborn son in Tamboril.  (source)
    furlough = temporary leave from work or duty
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    Pop gently counseled me that in fact I had no chance of getting furloughed, even for a funeral, unless it was my parent, my child, or maybe my sibling, and that she did not want me to get my hopes up.†  (source)
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    Are you giving out furloughs at the state prison?†  (source)
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    Billy was given an emergency furlough home because his father, a barber in Ilium, New York, was shot dead by a friend while they were out hunting deer.  (source)
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    We get furloughs starting Monday for 30 long days...I'll get home the fastest way possible.†  (source)
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    When Billy got back from his furlough.  (source)
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    Re furloughs.†  (source)
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    "Plow furloughs" were not looked upon in the same light as desertion in the face of the enemy, but they weakened the army just the same.†  (source)
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    The first four furloughs granted, as may be imagined, were to our four friends.†  (source)
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    Furlough, on the next night, that being October 29, 1969, the night Chase Andrews died, you worked at the reception desk all night.  (source)
    Furlough = a last name in this story
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    The manager told him to come in so he could receive a medical furlough.†  (source)
    furlough = a name in this story
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    So I had to negotiate a furlough.†  (source)
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    Indians who had once used hatchets to bare the skulls of white men drifted over from Buffalo Bill's compound, as did Annie Oakley and assorted Cossacks, Hussars, Lancers, and members of the U.S. Sixth Cavalry on temporary furlough to become actors in Colonel Cody's show.†  (source)
    furlough = a name in this story
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    Sometimes they requested a furlough; as often they just up and left, only to come straggling back into camp when it suited.†  (source)
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    Franklin was granted a furlough after boot camp, as were Mike, Ira, and Harlon after they docked in San Diego.†  (source)
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    But the first time she went on furlough to Berkeley, she had nearly had a stroke.†  (source)
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    My ability to write her furlough requests was also useful.†  (source)
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    I was practically a child at the time, but I remember when he used to come home on furlough and all, all he did was lie on his bed, practically.†  (source)
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    In the summer of 1943, after the breakthrough on the Kursk bulge and the liberation of Orel, Gordon, recently promoted to Second Lieutenant, and Major Dudorov were returning to their unit, the one from a service assignment in Moscow, the other from three days' furlough.†  (source)
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    All this week I've talked lies, like all men talk when they're on furlough.†  (source)
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    She announced: "Doctors compelled to put Joachim on medical furlough of several weeks.†  (source)
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    He had always been fond of Beatrice Wyld, and during his furlough he picked up with her again.†  (source)
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