Today’s “Word of the Day” is “furlough” and it is a noun meaning “If a firm is not able to function or they don’t have work for an employee to do due to economic conditions during the pandemic, that employee can be put “on furlough”, which means he/she is kept on the payroll and not sacked/made redundant; a mandatory, temporary unpaid leave of absence”.
Example Sentence: Yet apart from the furlough policy, The Chancellor of the Exchequer (The UK Finance minister) Rishi Sunak is even more of a normalist (believer in normality) than his boss. He is the cabinet’s most powerful agitator against lockdowns. His “eat out to help out” scheme is the arch-normalist (chief-normalist) policy: a costly attempt to make believe that all is dandy (excellent) – just weeks before another lockdown. And he has hemmed and hawed, ummed and ahhed over continuing his furlough scheme.
This word is present in The Guardian article The budget is a dangerous moment for an ambitious chancellor and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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