career break

career break (plural career breaks)

1. A period of time when one chooses not to have a job, for example because he wants to travel or look after his children.

   Coordinate term: sabbatical

• “career break”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “career break”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “career break” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.