shore leave

1. 1.

   leave granted to a sailor or naval officer

   Synonymsliberty

   Broaderleave

Questions about shore leave

What does shore leave mean?

shore leave means "leave granted to a sailor or naval officer".

What is another word for shore leave?

Close synonyms include liberty. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shore leave a common word?

shore leave is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.