take time off

1. 1.

   take time off from work; stop working temporarily

   Synonymstake off

   Broaderinterrupt

Questions about take time off

What does take time off mean?

take time off means "take time off from work; stop working temporarily".

What is another word for take time off?

Close synonyms include take off. 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 take time off a common word?

take time off 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.