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fur.

fur. is the abbreviation of furlough.

fur. is the abbreviation of furlong.

Meaning of furlough

Noun

furlough (countable and uncountable, plural furloughs)

  1. (US) Especially one granted to a member of the armed forces, or to a prisoner.
    • And I had a lot of things on my mind and I pretty well forgot my promise to Mama until I got shipped home on a special furlough for her funeral.1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”, in Going to Meet the Man, Dial, published 1965
  2. (UK) Especially one granted to a missionary.
  3. The documents authorizing such leave.
  4. A period of unpaid time off, used by an employer to reduce costs.
    • The state estimates the one-day-a-month furlough spread over the 18 months of the plan would amount to a 5 percent cut in pay.2008 November 7, Jon Ortiz, “State workers rip Schwarzenegger's job furlough plan”, in The Sacramento Bee

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Meaning of furlong

Noun

furlong (plural furlongs or (archaic) furlong)

  1. A unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile (220 yards, or 201.168 metres), now mainly used in measuring distances in farmland and horse racing.
    • Novv vvould I giue a thouſand furlongs of Sea, for an Acre of barren ground: Long heath, Brovvne firrs, any thing; the vvills aboue be done, but I vvould faine dye a dry death.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
  2. (dated) A unit of land area one furlong (sense 1) square (ten acres, or about four hectares).
  3. (UK, dated, dialectal) An undefined portion of an unenclosed field.
  4. (historical) Synonym of stadion (“a Greek unit of distance based on standardized footraces, equivalent to about 185.4 metres”).
    Synonyms:
    stade, stadium, stadion
  5. (dialectal, obsolete except UK) Synonym of headland (“unploughed boundary of a field”).
    Synonyms:
    headland
  6. (dialectal, obsolete except UK) Synonym of land (“the ground left unploughed between furrows”).
    Synonyms:
    land

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Questions about fur.

What is fur. the abbreviation of?
Fur. is the abbreviation of furlough.

Words near fur. in the dictionary

  1. fur-bearing trout
  2. fur-coated
  3. fur-demon
  4. fur-demons
  5. fur-flying
  6. fur.
  7. furacious
  8. furacity
  9. furadantin
  10. furafylline
  11. furalaxyl

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fur. (page history and authors); furlough (page history and authors); furlong (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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