Sabbatical
noun
A period of rest and free time given to someone for study, travel or relax.
The professor is on a year-long sabbatical so she will not teach any classes.
Often appears as...
- take a sabbatical
- on a sabbatical
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Academic
adjective
Linked with or indicating a period when an employee can take time off work to study or travel.
He's going on a sabbatical year to research on climate change.
Often appears as...
- sabbatical year
- sabbatical leave
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Academic
noun
A period of rest and free time given to someone for study, travel or relax.
The professor is on a year-long sabbatical so she will not teach any classes.
Often appears as...
- take a sabbatical
- on a sabbatical
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Linked with or indicating a period when an employee can take time off work to study or travel.
He's going on a sabbatical year to research on climate change.
Often appears as...
- sabbatical year
- sabbatical leave
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Planned Duration
A sabbatical is usually a long, planned break, often lasting several months to a year.
She's planning her six-month sabbatical to study Italian Renaissance art.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Vacation
Sabbaticals are for personal growth or academic research, not just extended vacations.
His sabbatical focuses on researching renewable energy solutions.
Pro Tip 3/3Academic Commonality
Sabbaticals are common in academia but can occur in other professional fields.
The company offers sabbaticals to its engineers for research and development projects.
Pro Tip 1/3Planned Duration
A sabbatical is usually a long, planned break, often lasting several months to a year.
She's planning her six-month sabbatical to study Italian Renaissance art.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Vacation
Sabbaticals are for personal growth or academic research, not just extended vacations.
His sabbatical focuses on researching renewable energy solutions.
Pro Tip 3/3Academic Commonality
Sabbaticals are common in academia but can occur in other professional fields.
The company offers sabbaticals to its engineers for research and development projects.
Pro Tip 1/3Planned Duration
A sabbatical is usually a long, planned break, often lasting several months to a year.
She's planning her six-month sabbatical to study Italian Renaissance art.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Vacation
Sabbaticals are for personal growth or academic research, not just extended vacations.
His sabbatical focuses on researching renewable energy solutions.
Pro Tip 3/3Academic Commonality
Sabbaticals are common in academia but can occur in other professional fields.
The company offers sabbaticals to its engineers for research and development projects.
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Lorrie Faith Cranor:...
there was actually a lot of similarities, and so this helped validate our research method and show that actually, collecting passwords using these Mechanical Turk studies is actually a valid way to study passwords. So that was good news. Okay, I want to close by talking about some insights I gained while on sabbatical
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Safari Live - Day 118 PIPE...
long ago think I may have actually found an eye chart in the same air and I'm talking over a year and a half ago when I just before I left for a short one year sabbatical so I don't know if you guys can help jog my memory and confirm that that was the case because if it is it'll be really interesting to know that
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Stefan Sagmeister: The...
What came out of it? I really got close to design again. I had fun. Financially, seen over the long term, it was actually successful. Because of the improved quality, we could ask for higher prices. And probably most importantly, basically everything we've done in the seven years following the first sabbatical
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Are we in control of our...
I had a sabbatical. I said, "I'll write about my research, if there's no other way. And then I'll get to do my cookbook." So, I wrote a book on my research. And it turned out to be quite fun in two ways. First of all, I enjoyed writing. But the more interesting thing was that I started learning from people.
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Bassam Tariq: The beauty...
There were even these two NFL athletes who took a sabbatical from the league to do so. And as 30 Mosques was blossoming around the world, I was actually stuck in Pakistan working on a film. My codirector, Omar, and I were at a breaking point with many of our friends on how to position the film.
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An interview with the...
I've come up with this new mantra after coming back from a three-month sabbatical, which is rare for black women to take who are in leadership, but I felt it was really important for my leadership and for my team to also practice stepping back as well as also sometimes stepping in.
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Shea Hembrey: How I...
So he makes these interesting conversations about realism and mimicry and our drive to be fooled by great camouflage. The next artist is Hazel Clausen. Hazel Clausen is an anthropologist who took a sabbatical and decided, "You know, I would learn a lot about culture
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How to be your best self...
the first week was absolutely you know it was chaotic with all of the stuff going on and I found for me being able to just think about okay if this lands up being some kind of forced sabbatical that I don't ask for but if that's what
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The real relationship...
in Budapest, in Boston, and you can study it all over the world. A few years later, when I moved to Harvard first as a sabbatical, I became interested in another type of that time, the networks within ourselves,
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Stefan Sagmeister: 7...
They were still done when I was on sabbatical with my company in Indonesia. We can see the first part here was designed here by pigs. It was a little bit too funky,
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Lorrie Faith Cranor:...
there was actually a lot of similarities, and so this helped validate our research method and show that actually, collecting passwords using these Mechanical Turk studies is actually a valid way to study passwords. So that was good news. Okay, I want to close by talking about some insights I gained while on sabbatical
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 118 PIPE...
long ago think I may have actually found an eye chart in the same air and I'm talking over a year and a half ago when I just before I left for a short one year sabbatical so I don't know if you guys can help jog my memory and confirm that that was the case because if it is it'll be really interesting to know that
Video examples
Stefan Sagmeister: The...
What came out of it? I really got close to design again. I had fun. Financially, seen over the long term, it was actually successful. Because of the improved quality, we could ask for higher prices. And probably most importantly, basically everything we've done in the seven years following the first sabbatical
Video examples
Are we in control of our...
I had a sabbatical. I said, "I'll write about my research, if there's no other way. And then I'll get to do my cookbook." So, I wrote a book on my research. And it turned out to be quite fun in two ways. First of all, I enjoyed writing. But the more interesting thing was that I started learning from people.
Video examples
Bassam Tariq: The beauty...
There were even these two NFL athletes who took a sabbatical from the league to do so. And as 30 Mosques was blossoming around the world, I was actually stuck in Pakistan working on a film. My codirector, Omar, and I were at a breaking point with many of our friends on how to position the film.
Video examples
An interview with the...
I've come up with this new mantra after coming back from a three-month sabbatical, which is rare for black women to take who are in leadership, but I felt it was really important for my leadership and for my team to also practice stepping back as well as also sometimes stepping in.
Video examples
Shea Hembrey: How I...
So he makes these interesting conversations about realism and mimicry and our drive to be fooled by great camouflage. The next artist is Hazel Clausen. Hazel Clausen is an anthropologist who took a sabbatical and decided, "You know, I would learn a lot about culture
Video examples
How to be your best self...
the first week was absolutely you know it was chaotic with all of the stuff going on and I found for me being able to just think about okay if this lands up being some kind of forced sabbatical that I don't ask for but if that's what
Video examples
The real relationship...
in Budapest, in Boston, and you can study it all over the world. A few years later, when I moved to Harvard first as a sabbatical, I became interested in another type of that time, the networks within ourselves,
Video examples
Stefan Sagmeister: 7...
They were still done when I was on sabbatical with my company in Indonesia. We can see the first part here was designed here by pigs. It was a little bit too funky,
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Arvind Swami
Indian Actor
I now have the experience of life and all I've seen. I came in when I was in my twenties and I wasn't prepared to be an actor. Then there was my sabbatical, my accident and I was single-parenting my kids. Your mind expands, you become mature and you feel liberated. I don't care about being conventional. I want to be daring.
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Lawrence Osborne
British Novelist
To me, the contemporary novel suffers from a lack of sense of place - or spirit of place, if you will. It's not important to most writers, I must assume, or they try to research a given background on sabbatical. Not for me. I write about places I've lived long before I ever set pen to paper.
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Divyanka Tripathi
Indian Actress
Being a TV actor is quite different from being a movie star, and I always try and highlight my character. It is the reason why I am more inclined to taking frequent sabbaticals: so that when I return, people can identify with the character I play.
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John Ortberg
American Clergyman
I have always heard that you need to give yourself a long time to unplug when you do a sabbatical. I unplugged so fast I was a little concerned that I was losing brain capacity.
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Arbaaz Khan
Indian Actor
I had taken a bit of a sabbatical because I was producing and directing films. But acting has always been my passion and it is something that I will continue to do.
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Akshaye Khanna
Indian Actor
When someone like me takes a sabbatical, it leads to a few happy realisations. It was only when I was away that I realised how films are such a big part of my life.
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KT Tunstall
Scottish Musician
I lived in L.A. for a year when I was four - my dad was doing a sabbatical at UCLA - so it always remained quite a familiar place.
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Jim Diamond
American Musician
I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.
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Nigel Lawson
British Politician
We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.
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Norman Granz
American Musician
My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.
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Arvind Swami
Indian Actor
I now have the experience of life and all I've seen. I came in when I was in my twenties and I wasn't prepared to be an actor. Then there was my sabbatical, my accident and I was single-parenting my kids. Your mind expands, you become mature and you feel liberated. I don't care about being conventional. I want to be daring.
Quote examples
Lawrence Osborne
British Novelist
To me, the contemporary novel suffers from a lack of sense of place - or spirit of place, if you will. It's not important to most writers, I must assume, or they try to research a given background on sabbatical. Not for me. I write about places I've lived long before I ever set pen to paper.
Quote examples
Divyanka Tripathi
Indian Actress
Being a TV actor is quite different from being a movie star, and I always try and highlight my character. It is the reason why I am more inclined to taking frequent sabbaticals: so that when I return, people can identify with the character I play.
Quote examples
John Ortberg
American Clergyman
I have always heard that you need to give yourself a long time to unplug when you do a sabbatical. I unplugged so fast I was a little concerned that I was losing brain capacity.
Quote examples
Arbaaz Khan
Indian Actor
I had taken a bit of a sabbatical because I was producing and directing films. But acting has always been my passion and it is something that I will continue to do.
Quote examples
Akshaye Khanna
Indian Actor
When someone like me takes a sabbatical, it leads to a few happy realisations. It was only when I was away that I realised how films are such a big part of my life.
Quote examples
KT Tunstall
Scottish Musician
I lived in L.A. for a year when I was four - my dad was doing a sabbatical at UCLA - so it always remained quite a familiar place.
Quote examples
Jim Diamond
American Musician
I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.
Quote examples
Nigel Lawson
British Politician
We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.
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Norman Granz
American Musician
My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.
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