English > leave office: 1 sense > verb 1, socialMeaning | Give up or retire from a position. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
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Example | "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month" |
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Synonyms | quit, step down, resign |
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Narrower | fall | Lose office or power |
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retire | go into retirement |
top out | Give up one's career just as one becomes very successful |
vacate, resign, renounce, give up | Leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily |
Broader | leave, depart, pull up stakes | Remove oneself from an association with or participation in |
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Opposite | take office | assume an office, duty, or title |
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Spanish | dejar, dimitir, renunciar, resignar |
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Catalan | dimitir |
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