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Definition of Quits

1. Adjective. On equal terms by payment or requital. "Finally quits with the loan"

Definition of Quits

1. interj. See the Note under Quit, a.

Definition of Quits

1. Adjective. (colloquial British) On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed. ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of quit) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Quits

1. quit [v] - See also: quit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quits

Literary usage of Quits

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1879)
"... quits France—Luther to the Duke of Savoy—Farel quits France. THUS violently did the gale of persecution blow at Meaux and at Metz. ..."

2. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1862)
"... from Valencia—The Olivo stormed—Campo Verde quits Tarragona, ... quits the place—The lower town is stormed—The upper town ..."

3. Army Regulations by Confederate States of America War Dept, United States War Dept (1908)
"Any officer or soldier who quits his guard, platoon, or division, without leave from his superior officer, except in ease of urgent necessity, ..."

4. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, from the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"Sir A. Wellesley quits his troops and proceeds to ... l/)i.ion to Abrantes—General Freire separates from the British—Junot quits Lisbon with the ..."

5. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"ALEXANDER quits INDIA. be perfectly favourable for the voyage. It was not however necessary that the army should wait so long, ..."

6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... and expanding again into a still wider sheet of water in the lower lake," Lough Erne " is finally contracted into a river, which quits the County, ..."

7. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1860)
"... Morbid Melancholy" lurking in his Constitution gains Strength—Translates Pope's Messiah into Latin Verse—His Course of Reading at Oxford—quits College. ..."

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