- permission to leave your duties for a period of time, especially for soldiers working in a foreign country（尤指在国外服役士兵的）休假（许可）
- The plane was full of soldiers going home on furlough.飞机上挤满了休假回家的士兵。
- a six-week furlough6周的假期
- (North American English) permission for a prisoner to leave prison for a period of time（犯人的）准假
- He was released on a weekend furlough.他周末休假被释放。
- The prisoner failed to return from a furlough.囚犯休假未能回来。
Topics Crime and punishmentc2 - (North American English) a period of time during which workers are told not to come to work, usually because there is not enough money to pay them（通常因发不出工资而给的）准假
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Dutch verlof, modelled on German Verlaub, of West Germanic origin and related to leave (noun).