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The phrase "a day's leave" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a single day off from work or duty, typically for personal reasons or rest.
Example: "I requested a day's leave to attend my sister's wedding."
Alternatives: "one day off" or "a day off".
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These advantages include avoiding a general anaesthetic, being treated immediately after diagnosis, taking only half a day's leave from work, not having to arrange for childcare, and fewer hospital appointments.
The 26-year-old was given a day's leave from the Germans' training base in Dusseldorf by the national manager Joachim Löw yesterday to undergo a medical for a move to Arsenal.
Every professor had to swear obedience to the students' rector; he had to get his pupil's consent for a day's leave or absence, and if the left town he had to give a bond for his return.
Under the new statewide law, which took effect early in 2012, when someone takes a day's leave, Mr. Shackford said, "I now have to pay the temporary worker who comes in, as well as the person who's out sick.
So, for example, you must be given two days' notice if your employer wants you to take a day's leave.
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In future, reservists will be entitled to a day's paid leave for every eight they serve, meaning a "substantial percentage increase" in their overall remuneration.
Staff have a wellbeing website and every employee is allowed a day's paid leave a year to work with a charity, and outstanding work is recognised at the annual volunteer awards.
The public-school systems in Alexandria, Virginia, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, will both close down tomorrow, after a critical mass of employees requested a single day's leave.
We have prisoners of conscience who have not had a single day's leave from prison in seven or eight years, such as Fariba Kamalabadi or Mahvash Shahriari, who are Baha'i".
"Unison have suggested that … conceding an extra day's leave could suffice" – even while their own members are fighting for equal holidays, sick pay and pensions.
Always finish a day's work by leaving a final full stop - so when you resume you're up and running as soon as you sit down.
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