Meaning of gardening leave | Babel Free

Definitions

Garden leave.

UK, uncountable

Examples

“Goodchild had accepted an offer to move from UBS to Coutts, and because the two banks are in direct competition he was, as he expected to be, put straight on to "gardening leave".”

“Until September Mr Orcel was head of the investment bank at Switzerland’s UBS. He had been due to succeed José Antonio Álvarez in April, after “gardening leave”.”

CEFR level