Furlough vs Permission - What's the difference?
furlough | permission |
A leave of absence or vacation.
# (US) especially one granted to a member of the armed forces, or to a prisoner.
# (British) especially one granted to a missionary.
The documents authorizing such leave.
(US) A period of unpaid time off, used by an employer to reduce costs.
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authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)
The act of permitting.
(computing) flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.
As nouns the difference between furlough and permission
is that furlough is a leave of absence or vacation while permission is authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority).As a verb furlough
is to grant a furlough to (someone).furlough
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(wikipedia furlough) (en noun)Quotations
* (English Citations of "furlough")permission
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- Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?
- I used the "chmod" command to change the file's permission .