shore leave

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shore leave

n.
Leave of absence granted to a sailor to go ashore.
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shore leave

n
1. (Nautical Terms) permission to go ashore. Compare liberty5
2. (Nautical Terms) time spent ashore during leave
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shore′ leave`


n.
1. permission given to a sailor or ship's officer to spend time ashore.
2. the time so spent.
[1905–10]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.shore leave - leave granted to a sailor or naval officer
leave, leave of absence - the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty; "a ten day's leave to visit his mother"
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Translations

shore leave

n (Naut) → franchigia
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Military sources claim the Royal Navy servicemen took the class-A drug while on shore leave in Florida.
Ali Asghar, a deck cadet of Bangladesh Marine Academy for the batch 51st, died in a fatal road accident while going to Shore Leave (time spent on the shore) with the permission of the master in Puerto San Martin, Argentina on September 3 last year.
An investigation is ongoing to establish the circumstances of Ben's death, who went missing while on a period of shore leave.
class="firstThe Anna Elisabeth is being blocked from leaving a dock in Port Kembla, near Wollongong, after 17 crew members from Sri Lanka and the Philippines claimed there was not enough food and a ban on shore leave.
"The incident occurred when the four-person polar bear guard team, who are always on board for these expedition cruises as required by law, prepared for a shore leave," the company said.
his great moves to good use in this revival of Bernstein's classic musical about sailors on shore leave looking for fun in New York.
One night they meet two Russian sailors on shore leave (Alfred Molina and Peter Firth) and it sparks - for one of them - a romance against the odds.
Sydney: A sailor who was found dead on shore leave in Muscat has been named by the Australian navy.
Olongapo Mayor Rolen Paulino earlier said the city would deploy shore patrol officers for the proposed Task Force Liberty to prevent crimes while American servicemen are on shore leave. Eight US naval ships are expected to arrive here until December, he said.
It is 1940 and in a Liverpool increasingly affected by the war, Joan and her family are trying to carry on as normally as possible--difficult when her sister's boyfriend in the merchant navy has shore leave cancelled and can't say where he's posted to, food rationing is making everyone miserable and even a night at the cinema isn't safe from the bombs.
You know the movie, three sailors on shore leave played by Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin singing "New York New York, it's a wonderful town.." In my head the three sailors set off round here singing "Bel-fast Bel-fast, a mad little town, policing is up and arts funding is down, there's huge big fires on waste ground.
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