What is "sabbatical leave"

Usage examples of "sabbatical leave".

It's probably a lucky break that I chose my sabbatical leave when I did.

I wanted to go to Brazil again, this time for ten months, and I had just earned my sabbatical leave from Cornell.

I called the University of Sydney, spoke with a computer, but at last got a human voice that admitted knowing Professor Farnese but he was on sabbatical leave.

Itai had a year's sabbatical leave at three-quarters' pay, to write a novel.

All this semester he had been on sabbatical leave, but the summer term was coming and there was work to do.

Dees' application for sabbatical leave, and pointed it down the corridor.

Part of the book was written during a sabbatical leave kindly granted by the Department of Zoology and New College.

My study turned out to be, however, a much larger room, lined from floor to ceiling with some two thousand books on chemistry which my landlord (on sabbatical leave for the time being) taught at Beardsley College.

She is taking sabbatical leave from her faculty position at Oxford to spend a year teaching in Venice on a Trikon International fellowship.

Peter Willcox was due for his sabbatical leave from Cape Town University.