maternity leave
maternity leave noun: a leave of absence from a job for a mother to care of a baby.
Noun
maternity leave (countable and uncountable, plural maternity leaves)
- A leave of absence from a job for a mother to care of a baby.
- My wife is on a two year maternity leave while she takes care of her newborn baby.
- I went on maternity leave in May 2022, so have been away for nearly 14 months.2023 July 26, Stefanie Foster, “Comment: Rebuild trust or it's game over”, in RAIL, number 988, page 3
maternity leave meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Arabic
maternity leave in Hindi
- maternity leave
- प्रसूति अवकाश prasūti avkāś
maternity leave in Tamil
- மகப்பேறு விடுப்பு
maternity leave in Kannada
- ಹೆರಿಗೆ ರಜೆ, ಹೆರಿಗೆ ರಜ, ಹೆರಿಗೆ ರಜಾ, ಪ್ರಸವ ರಜೆ, ಪ್ರಸವ ರಜ, ಪ್ರಸವ ರಜಾ
maternity leave in Arabic
- leave of absence
- إجَازَة أُمُومَة
More languagesFewer languages
- maternity leave in Malay
- cuti bersalin
- maternity leave in Indonesian
- cuti hamil
- maternity leave in Myanmar
- မီးဖွားခွင့် mi:hpwa:hkwang.
Forms of maternity leave
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Words formed from maternity leave
Questions about maternity leave
- What does maternity leave mean?
- Maternity leave means a leave of absence from a job for a mother to care of a baby.
- What is maternity leave in Hindi?
- Maternity leave in Hindi is प्रसूति अवकाश (prasūti avkāś). See Maternity leave meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is maternity leave?
- Maternity leave is a noun.
- What is the plural of maternity leave?
- The plural of maternity leave is maternity leaves.
Words near maternity leave in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: maternity leave (page history and authors); प्रसूति अवकाश (Hindi) (page history and authors); maternity leave (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); maternity leave (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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