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"ref": "2008 November 7, Jon Ortiz, “State workers rip Schwarzenegger's job furlough plan”, in The Sacramento Bee",
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"sense": "period of unpaid time off used by an employer to reduce costs",
"tags": [
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"sense": "period of unpaid time off used by an employer to reduce costs",
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"sense": "period of unpaid time off used by an employer to reduce costs",
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"sense": "period of unpaid time off used by an employer to reduce costs",
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"word": "fizetés nélküli szabadság"
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"sense": "period of unpaid time off used by an employer to reduce costs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "permesso non retribuito"
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"sense": "period of unpaid time off used by an employer to reduce costs",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cassa integrazione"
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"sense": "period of unpaid time off used by an employer to reduce costs",
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"sense": "period of unpaid time off used by an employer to reduce costs",
"word": "licença não remunerada"
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"roman": "neoplačivajemyj otpusk",
"sense": "period of unpaid time off used by an employer to reduce costs",
"word": "неоплачиваемый отпуск"
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"sense": "period of unpaid time off used by an employer to reduce costs",
"word": "neplaćeni dopust"
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"sense": "period of unpaid time off used by an employer to reduce costs",
"word": "prisilni odmor"
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"sense": "period of unpaid time off used by an employer to reduce costs",
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"word": "ausencia no pagada"
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"sense": "leave of absence",
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"government",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "leave of absence",
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"english": "prisoner",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "leave of absence",
"tags": [
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"word": "Hafturlaub"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "leave of absence",
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "leave of absence",
"tags": [
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"sense": "leave of absence",
"word": "eltávozási engedély"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "leave of absence",
"word": "szabadság"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "leave of absence",
"word": "eltávozás"
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"code": "hu",
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"word": "eltáv"
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"tags": [
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"sense": "leave of absence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"tags": [
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "învoire"
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"tags": [
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"tags": [
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"word": "о́тпуск"
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"roman": "pobývka",
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"tags": [
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"word": "зві́льнення"
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"sense": "documents authorizing leave of absence",
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"roman": "uvolʹnítelʹnaja",
"sense": "documents authorizing leave of absence",
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"word": "увольни́тельная"
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"sense": "to grant a furlough",
"word": "myöntää loma"
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"_dis1": "95 5",
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to grant a furlough",
"word": "beurlauben"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to grant a furlough",
"word": "szabadságot ad"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to grant a furlough",
"word": "szabadságol"
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"sense": "to grant a furlough",
"word": "konjedar"
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"To have (an employee) not work in order to reduce costs; to send (someone) on furlough."
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"(transitive) To have (an employee) not work in order to reduce costs; to send (someone) on furlough."
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},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to grant a furlough",
"word": "beurlauben"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to grant a furlough",
"word": "szabadságot ad"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to grant a furlough",
"word": "szabadságol"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to grant a furlough",
"word": "konjedar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to bar (an employee) from working",
"word": "lomauttaa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to bar (an employee) from working",
"word": "zwangsbeurlauben"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to bar (an employee) from working",
"word": "kényszerszabadságra küld"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to bar (an employee) from working",
"word": "permittere"
}
],
"word": "furlough"
}
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