time off in lieu

Examples of lieu

lieu
Several community members were found to have been sending hired people in lieu of their own labor contribution for maintenance work.
The borrower worked for the lender, or substituted someone to work in his or her place, in lieu of paying interest on the loan.
At harvest time, in lieu of wages the crop is divided between the owner and the labourers.
This dynamic programming approach produces a directed acyclic graph in lieu of the tree.
The other 35% of centres have either resisted "unsocial" hours working, depended on the goodwill of staff, or awarded their employees time-off in lieu.
In the calculations, in lieu of better information the discharge per unit width was approximated as the discharge divided by the water surface width.
Garments were also acquired in lieu of wages.
Something tangible was needed, and the hierarchy chose self-communion in lieu of priestly and spiritual communion.
Employers also had the option of providing a housing allowance in lieu of accommodation, which some used as a pretext to limit wages.
Typically, however, farmers granted their laborers a plot of land in lieu of cash wages.
In addition, ordinary zabtiyes were paid 45 piastres, lieutenants and captains 90, and majors 555 piastres in lieu of bread rations.
In accepting conflict and ambiguity within a project, in lieu of an extremist oppositional stance, a mediative potential is formed.
In lieu of mechanization, administrators attempted to find other and cheaper ways to make the cities sanitary.
Note that the requirement here is that the child's consent be obtained in addition to, not in lieu of, the consent of the legal guardian.
For many speakers "lieu" and "loo" are now homophones.
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