What's the difference between abbatical and sabbatical?

Abbatical


Definition:

  • (a.) Abbatial.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Juan Abbate, the owner of the family bakery where Mujica worked as a boy, described how he had once been prevented from making a delivery by a gang of teenage pasta-base hoodlums.

Sabbatical


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sabbath; resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) City landed the former Barcelona chief executive, Ferran Soriano , and many thought the two former Barça men's recruitment looked a threat to the Italian, especially with Pep Guardiola on sabbatical and looming over any potential vacancies at Europe's top clubs.
  • (2) During the early 2000s he began to talk to colleagues about taking a sabbatical.
  • (3) Hilton is unlikely to return from a sabbatical in California because of his frustration at the slow pace of reform.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Video: The many faces of Jürgen Klopp The deal represents a significant coup for FSG, which has convinced the coveted Klopp to abandon his sabbatical from the game after four months despite Liverpool having no Champions League football to offer.
  • (5) Teachers should be able to do sabbaticals and master’s degrees and to progress personally and professionally without having to go into a management job if that’s not what they want.
  • (6) He read PPE at Oxford, worked with me on a politics programme on Channel 4, landed a job as a special adviser, took a sabbatical at Harvard when working with Gordon Brown and Ed Balls became just too much, returned to Britain to be guided into a safe seat and not long after was in the cabinet.
  • (7) Visiting fellows on a 1-year sabbatical can take months to settle in and organize their personal lives.
  • (8) At the 19 responding schools, sabbaticals were taken by an average of less than one-sixth of the eligible faculty members.
  • (9) But when I was on sabbatical at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, I found that in three months I got an enormous amount of stuff done and did an awful lot of really serious thinking, which was a great luxury, but I also had what felt like an amazingly leisurely life.
  • (10) Like our sabbatical officers, Aaron Porter should support students engaged in peaceful direct action to defend their education.
  • (11) "We went off script: the script that said a few thousand people would turn up, complain a bit, and go home; and the cuts would go through pretty much as planned," said Chessum, 21, a sabbatical officer at University College London.
  • (12) Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp takes charge of his first training session Read more He had previously said that he intended to see out his year-long sabbatical and would not return to management until next season.
  • (13) Does it sound unenthusiastic to raise a sabbatical and postpone your start date for a year before you've even begun?
  • (14) This account of Italian general practice is based on the author's personal experience gained during a one month sabbatical visit to Italy in 1990.
  • (15) A retirement age of 60 was seen effectively as a short sabbatical from work, during which a patriarch could get his affairs in order before dropping dead.
  • (16) Burchill was a columnist for the Guardian and then the Times, but left the latter in 2006, announcing a year's sabbatical from journalism.
  • (17) When Zusi broke into the national set-up last year, he was seen to be getting his chance through the absence of Donovan on his sabbatical.
  • (18) In Sweden, employers who recruit older workers on long-term contracts are entitled to a subsidy of up to 75% of the older worker's salary, while the German government intends to introduce greater flexibility to working time and open up more sabbaticals for its older workforce.
  • (19) José Mourinho is to seek an immediate return to top-level management following his dismissal by Chelsea after insisting he has no intention of taking a prolonged sabbatical from the game.
  • (20) Garde evidently feels revitalised by the sabbatical he has enjoyed since leaving, during which his only football-related work has been as a media analyst, sometimes alongside Wenger, his friend and virtual mentor.

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