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Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA),

What Does Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Mean?

The 1993 law provides insured employees up to 12 weeks' leave over a 12-month period due to the birth or adoption of a child or the serious health of an employee, child, spouse or parent.

Literal Meanings of Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

Family:

Meanings of Family:
  1. One or more parents and a group of their children live together as a unit.

  2. They all come from a common ancestor.

  3. There are many things involved.

  4. Designed for kids and adults.

Sentences of Family
  1. This family is a big house with a lot of land

  2. The house has been in the same family for 300 years

  3. All the manuscripts that distribute these letters become one family.

  4. Family diary

Synonyms of Family

ancestry, line, pedigree, genealogy, race, descent, lineage, blood, stock, breed, family tree, bloodline, strain, line of descent, ménage, household, background, birth, extraction, parentage, derivation

Medical:

Meanings of Medical:
  1. Medical science or the treatment of diseases and wounds.

Sentences of Medical
  1. Medical center

Synonyms of Medical

technological, technical

Leave:

Meanings of Leave:
  1. Stay away from.

  2. Leave

  3. The reason (someone else or something) is in a particular condition or position.

  4. (Billiards, billiards, snooker, cricket and other sports) Ball position after shot.

  5. Absence due to lack of work or military services.

  6. Approval

  7. Issuance of (plant) new leaves.

Sentences of Leave
  1. He left New York on June 6

  2. The parts you don't like, the parts you change and the parts you don't like, the parts you leave behind

  3. Bring me, I have no doubt what he is thinking

  4. Who is on vacation at home

  5. Request for permission to appeal the order

Synonyms of Leave

break, take oneself off from, acceptance, leave of absence, decamp from, a week off, liberty, dispensation, clearance, furlough, concession, time off, approval, pull out of, take one's leave of, agreement, quit, backing, respite, leisure time, indulgence, authorization

Act:

Meanings of Act:
  1. Take action, do something.

  2. Follow the prompts.

  3. The process has a special effect.

  4. Play an imaginary role in the production of a drama, film or television.

  5. One thing acted.

  6. Excuse me

  7. A written order from Congress or another legislature affects legislation.

  8. American College Test.

Sentences of Act
  1. Appeal to Washington to work

  2. They are following the person who is making the suspicious move

  3. Blood samples are tested to determine how the drug works in the body.

  4. He made his professional debut at the age of six.

  5. He plays a lot and laughs

  6. End of slavery

  7. The first action

Synonyms of Act

play a part, take the initiative, have an effect on, decree, command, condition, make a move, undertaking, change, control, function, operation, section, bill, do something, effort, feat, influence, dictate, part, stipulation