gardening
leave
(
uncountable
)
- (
UK
)
Garden leave
.
2008
August 1, Melissa Viney, “The secret garden”, in
The Guardian
[1]
,
→ISSN
:
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
".
2019
January 19, “Andrea Orcel’s move from UBS to Santander falls through”, in
The Economist
[2]
,
→ISSN
:
Until September Mr Orcel was head of the investment bank at Switzerland’s UBS. He had been due to succeed Jose Antonio Alvarez in April, after “
gardening leave
”.