sick leave

1. 1.

   a leave of absence from work because of illness

   Broaderleave

Questions about sick leave

What does sick leave mean?

sick leave means "a leave of absence from work because of illness".

Is sick leave a common word?

sick 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.