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parental leave

nounB2Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

Parental leave is time off allowed to care for a new child. Take parental leave.

How much there is, and who may take it, differs enormously between countries. Parental leave taken by fathers changes how the work is shared for years afterwards.

Joep Zander · CC BY-SA 3.0

Definitions of parental leave

  1. 1nounparental leaveTime off allowed to care for a new child.B2

    “He took six months of parental leave and nobody blinked.”

parental leave is a right.

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