"garden leave" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "In reference to the time a person can work on their garden during their paid leave.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "garden leave (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We think he's going to start working for our competitor, so we've put on him on garden leave so he doesn't take all of our latest ideas.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Janice Nairns, Employment Law for Business Students, second edition, Pearson Education, page 128",
          "text": "The use of a garden leave clause means that the employee is allowed to stay at home (in the garden!) on full pay but is not allowed to work for anyone else during the life of the notice period.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A period of paid leave before termination of employment, often including non-compete contract clauses."
      ],
      "id": "en-garden_leave-en-noun-0uRpUoId",
      "links": [
        [
          "paid",
          "paid"
        ],
        [
          "leave",
          "leave"
        ],
        [
          "employment",
          "employment"
        ],
        [
          "non-compete",
          "non-compete"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) A period of paid leave before termination of employment, often including non-compete contract clauses."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "gardening leave"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "period of paid leave before termination of employment",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "fritstilling"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "period of paid leave before termination of employment",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "bezahlte Freistellung"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "en:garden leave"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "garden leave"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "In reference to the time a person can work on their garden during their paid leave.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "garden leave (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We think he's going to start working for our competitor, so we've put on him on garden leave so he doesn't take all of our latest ideas.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Janice Nairns, Employment Law for Business Students, second edition, Pearson Education, page 128",
          "text": "The use of a garden leave clause means that the employee is allowed to stay at home (in the garden!) on full pay but is not allowed to work for anyone else during the life of the notice period.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A period of paid leave before termination of employment, often including non-compete contract clauses."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "paid",
          "paid"
        ],
        [
          "leave",
          "leave"
        ],
        [
          "employment",
          "employment"
        ],
        [
          "non-compete",
          "non-compete"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) A period of paid leave before termination of employment, often including non-compete contract clauses."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "en:garden leave"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "gardening leave"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "period of paid leave before termination of employment",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "fritstilling"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "period of paid leave before termination of employment",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bezahlte Freistellung"
    }
  ],
  "word": "garden leave"
}