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gardening leave

gardening leave noun: garden leave.

Noun

gardening leave (uncountable)

  1. (UK) Garden leave.
    • Goodchild had accepted an offer to move from UBS to Coutts, and because the two banks are in direct competition he was, as he expected to be, put straight on to "gardening leave".2008 August 1, Melissa Viney, “The secret garden”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    • Until September Mr Orcel was head of the investment bank at Switzerland’s UBS. He had been due to succeed José Antonio Álvarez in April, after “gardening leave”.2019 January 19, “Andrea Orcel’s move from UBS to Santander falls through”, in The Economist, →ISSN

Questions about gardening leave

What does gardening leave mean?
Gardening leave means garden leave.
What part of speech is gardening leave?
Gardening leave is a noun.

Words near gardening leave in the dictionary

  1. gardenhoses
  2. gardenia
  3. gardenias
  4. gardenin'
  5. gardening
  6. gardening leave
  7. gardenings
  8. gardenish
  9. gardenize
  10. gardenized
  11. gardenizes

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