sabbatical
noun [ C or U ]
uk/səˈbætɪkəl/ us(also sabbatical leave) HR, WORKPLACE
a period during which an employee can take time away from work to study or travel:
take a sabbatical The team's technical director might take a year's sabbatical next season.
on sabbatical Gray is on sabbatical as he finishes his dissertation at IU.
When he obtained funding for six months' sabbatical leave, he chose to visit a centre specializing in the disease.
a sabbatical year/month/period