mass noun
- leave of absence, especially that granted to a member of the services or a missionary（尤指公职人员或传教士的）休假：
a civil servant home on furlough
在家休假的公务员
count noun a six-week furlough in Australia.在澳大利亚的六个星期的休假。
with obj.［usu. as adj. furloughed］
- US grant such leave of absence to〈美〉准…休假：
furloughed workers.
获准休假的工人。
词源
early 17th cent.: from Dutch verlof, modelled on German Verlaub, of West Germanic origin and related to LEAVE2.