Answer to "Furloughs" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word LEAVES , but the solution may also be AXES which is one of the most recent solution (1999 in USA Today).

Furloughs crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
LEAVES	33 %	6
LAYSOFF	33 %	7
AXES	33 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Furloughs

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• lay off
• sabbatical leave
• time off
• annual leave
• take leave
• sabbatical
• severance pay
• paid vacation
• on leave
• vacations
• severance
• cutbacks

Crossword Answer definitions

LEAVES noun

1. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
2. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
3. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
4. A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
5. (in the plural) Tea leaves.
6. A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
7. A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
8. A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
9. In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
10. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
11. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
12. Marijuana.
13. (4chan) A Canadian person.

LEAVES verb

1. To have a consequence or remnant.
2. To depart; to separate from.
3. To transfer something.
4. To remain (behind); to stay.
5. To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).

LEAVES noun

1. The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
2. The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).

LEAVES noun

1. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
2. Permission.
3. Farewell, departure.

LEAVES verb

1. To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.

LEAVES verb

1. To produce leaves or foliage.

LEAVES verb

1. To raise; to levy.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result LEAVES

• Skips town
• Sheets you don't sleep in
• Takes a powder
• Takes off
• They may turn color in the fall
• Fall collection?
• Hits the road
• Tea source
• See 19-Down
• Fall fallers

More clues leading to the result LAYSOFF

• Furloughs
• Pink-slips
• Abstains from
• Lets go

More clues leading to the result AXES

• Chops off
• Fires
• Shows to the door
• Terminates
• X, Y, and Z
• Fellers
• Graph lines
• Fire department tools
• Lines in geometry class
• Props in some "The Wizard of Oz" costumes