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This is a good article, and I don't know why it's necessarily labeled as a stub.
On one hand, it's short; on the other hand, it's concise. just my bits (=
Extra bit of information to go in the article if anyone has it: What is the origin of the phrase, and how are we to understand it's parsing? There seem to be two options: 1) 'Leave of absence' is like 'leave of you' in 'I take my leave of you.' If this was it, then taking a leave of absence would mean putting my absence behind me; so it'd be the opposite of what the phrase means. 2) 'Leave of absences' is an answer to the question 'What kind of leave are you taking?' But if that's so, it looks redundant. Every type of leave seems to involve your absence, so 'leave of absence' just means 'leave.'
'Leave' in this case means 'permission', as in 'by your leave' or 'you have my leave to...'