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Collocations for leave - noun

1. period of time when you do not go to work

ADJECTIVE

annual
paid, unpaid
extended, indefinite, weekend
compassionate (BrE), family (AmE), maternity, medical (AmE), parental, paternity, sabbatical, sick, study
administrative (AmE)
gardening (= period during which a person does not work but remains employed by a company in order to prevent them working for another company)
She handed in her resignation and was put on three months' gardening leave.
home, shore

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VERB + leave

be entitled to, get, have
How much annual leave do you get?
I still have some leave left this year.
go on, spend, take, use, use up
She spent most of her leave with her family.
I still have some leave to use up.
cancel (BrE)
When the war broke out all leave was cancelled.
give sb, grant sb
apply for

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leave + NOUN

entitlement (esp. BrE)

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PREPOSITION

on leave
She's on leave until the end of the month.

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2. official permission to do sth

ADJECTIVE

special (BrE)

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VERB + leave

request
He asked leave to absent himself for four days.
give sb, grant sb
obtain (esp. BrE)
refuse sb (BrE)

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PREPOSITION

by sb's leave (esp. BrE)
The appeal can only be brought by leave of the trial judge.
with sb's leave, without sb's leave
No application may be made without the leave of the court.

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PHRASES

absent without leave
leave of absence

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Collocations for leave - verb

VERB + leave

decide to
intend to, plan to, want to
be ready to
We were all packed and ready to leave.
be about to, be going to
Did you want something? I was just about to leave.
threaten to
My secretary has threatened to leave.
attempt to, try to
They were caught trying to leave the country.
refuse to
be compelled to, be forced to, be obliged to
ask sb to, order sb to
They were being extremely rowdy and the manager had to ask them to leave.
allow sb to, let sb
I wanted to leave but they wouldn't let me.
enable sb to

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PREPOSITION

for
They left for Scotland this morning.

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Leave is used with these nouns as the subject:
bus, cubicle, employee, expedition, ferry, flight, path, procession, ship, train, troops, vessel

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Leave is used with these nouns as the object:
academy, address, airport, airspace, area, arena, army, atmosphere, bag, barracks, bedside, bequest, blank, boyfriend, bruise, bus, business, cabinet, camp, car, church, clearance, clue, college, comment, committee, company, confines, convent, country, crater, crumb, dent, deposit, desk, dock, earth, education, elevator, employment, estate, field, fingerprint, firm, flat, fold, footprint, fortune, gap, garbage, gash, ground, group, harbour, highway, home, homeland, hospital, husband, impression, imprint, inheritance, instruction, job, key, land, legacy, litter, lover, mall, mansion, margin, mark, mess, message, military, ministry, monastery, motorway, nest, note, office, orbit, party, path, port, post, practice, premises, profession, region, restaurant, restroom, ring, road, room, roundabout, rubbish, safety, sanctuary, scar, scene, scent, school, scope, scratch, seat, service, shelter, shore, signature, smear, staff, stage, stain, station, survivor, table, taste, team, territory, theatre, time, tip, town, trace, track, trail, train, tunnel, university, vacancy, vacuum, valley, vicinity, void, washing-up, welfare, widow, wife, will, workforce, yard, zone

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