sabbatical

/səˈbætɪkəl/ noun [C or U] (also sabbatical leave)

Definition

› HR, WORKPLACE a period during which an employee can take time away from work to study or travel: take a sabbatical The team's technical director might take a year's sabbatical next season.on sabbatical Gray is on sabbatical as he finishes his dissertation at IU. When he obtained funding for six months' sabbatical leave, he chose to visit a centre specializing in the disease. a sabbatical year/month/period

(Definition of sabbatical noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)