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# furloughed

«furloughed» in Mova's school dictionary: **sent home from work for a time without pay or with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (furlough, furloughs, furloughed, furloughing); adjective (furloughed); noun (a furlough, furloughs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (euphemism, work) sent home from work for a time without pay or with reduced pay, because the employer has no work or money; it may lead to losing the job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furloughed/#m1)

2) (military, old) given a leave of absence: «a soldier on furlough». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furloughed/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Business and government word that sounds temporary and gentle compared with «laid off»; very common in news during economic crises. Official, US and UK. The military sense is old-fashioned.

### examples

- Dad was furloughed when the factory shut for three months. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furloughed/#x1)
- Thousands of workers were furloughed during the crisis. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furloughed/#x2)
- Being furloughed means you don't work for a while but you might go back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furloughed/#x3)
- The government paid part of the wages of furloughed staff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furloughed/#x4)
- Mum's café furloughed all its waiters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furloughed/#x5)
- The soldier came home on furlough. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furloughed/#x6)
- Some furloughed workers never got their jobs back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furloughed/#x7)
- If a worker earns 400 pounds a week and is furloughed on 80 percent pay, he gets 320 pounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furloughed/#x8)

### note

Trap: it sounds temporary, but it can end in losing the job. Plain words: sent home from work, temporarily laid off. In maths, check what percentage of pay is kept.

### In the corpora

- ["Furloughed" means sent home from work for a period, often unpaid.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «furloughed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/furloughed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.