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sabbatical year
noun
- Also called sabbat顎僫cal leave顎. (in a school, college, university, etc.) a year, usually every seventh, of release from normal teaching duties granted to a professor, as for study or travel.
- Chiefly Biblical. a yearlong period to be observed by Jews once every seven years, during which the fields were to be left untilled and all agricultural labors were to be suspended. Leviticus 25. Compare jubilee ( def 6 ).
sabbatical year
noun
- often capitals Bible a year during which the land was to be left uncultivated, debts annulled, etc, supposed to be observed every seventh year by the ancient Israelites according to Leviticus 25
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of sabbatical year1
Example Sentences
Mr Swinney says he has been re-energised by what he terms a "sabbatical year" - saying that "the best thing that happened to me was standing down and having a year out of the front line".
He said at the time that he was taking a sabbatical year and added he could be open to coaching a national team after his year off.
In 1970, when the family left for a sabbatical year in Trujillo, Peru, the Kochs made sure to rent their home to a Black family, apparently the first in the neighborhood.
The campaign also coincided with the Jewish sabbatical year known as 鈥渟hmita鈥 or the year of release.
He decided against taking a sabbatical year in China, for fear it would make him a target.
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