Usually means: Authorized absence from naval duties.
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  1. shore leave: Merriam-Webster
  2. shore leave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shore leave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shore leave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shore leave: Vocabulary.com
  6. shore-leave: Wordnik
  7. shore leave: Wiktionary
  8. shore leave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. shore leave: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. shore leave: Dictionary.com
  11. Shore Leave (film), Shore leave (film), Shore leave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. shore leave: Rhymezone
  13. shore leave: FreeDictionary.org
  14. shore leave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. shore leave: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shore leave: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shore leave: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See shore_leaves as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (shore leave)

noun:  (military, nautical) Free time given to sailors of the military navy when they are off duty and allowed to disembark and spend time on land.

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