A sabbatical is a break or extended period of time taken from work or daily responsibilities, typically granted to professionals for rest, research, or personal development. Full definition
On sabbatical leave in Ellson Chen's lab at Applied Biosystems, Inc. (1995 - 1997) he sequenced the genome of Ureaplasma parvum and began his study of mycoplasma genomics. (jcvi.org)
Under the direction of a panel made up of schools administrators and members of the local teachers union, qualified veteran teachers — usually called consulting teachers — take sabbaticals from classroom teaching to mentor new teachers during their first years and to support... (gse.harvard.edu)
Converted by a 1968 sabbatical year at Oxford to radical opposition to the Vietnam War, Braaten elaborated an eschatological ethics that sought, without succumbing to secular utopian schemes of violent social transformation, to «baptize the concept of revolution.» (firstthings.com)