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Definition of Leave office
1. Verb. Give up or retire from a position. "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"
Specialized synonyms: Give Up, Renounce, Resign, Vacate, Retire, Top Out, Fall
Generic synonyms: Depart, Leave, Pull Up Stakes
Antonyms: Take Office
Derivative terms: Resignation, Resignation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leave Office
Literary usage of Leave office
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Grain Trade in France, 1400-1710 by Abbott Payson Usher (1913)
"At the end of the year thus indicated, three of the six Intendants shall leave
office and in their place three persons shall be elected by the ..."
2. A History of the Thirty Years' Peace, A.D. 1816-1846 by Harriet Martineau, Charles Knight (1877)
"Mr. Huskisson, feeble in health, and cast down by the loss of his life-long
friend, wished to leave office. He had turned homewards on hearing the bad news, ..."
3. A History of the Thirty Years' Peace, A.D. 1816-1846 by Harriet Martineau (1877)
"Mr. Huskisson, feeble in health, and cast down by the loss of his life-long
friend, wished to leave office. He had turned homewards on hearing the bad news, ..."
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