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leavenoun a period during which the usual routine of school or work is suspendedthe soldier was on leave for three days before having to report back to base break, holiday(chiefly British), hols(British), recess, vacation sabbaticalfurlough, libertybreather, relaxation, respite, restinterim, intermission, intervalfeast, holy day, legal holidayidling, loafing, lounging, slacking the approval by someone in authority for the doing of somethingthe editor gave the reporters leave to follow up on their initial investigation of the senator's fund-raising practices allowance, authorization, clearance, concurrence, consent, granting, green light, license(or licence), permission, sanction, sufferance, warrant imprimatur, seal, signature, stampaccreditation, certificationliberty, passconcession, patent, permittolerance, tolerationacceptance, acquiescence, agreement, assent, OK(or okay)accord, grant interdiction, prohibition, proscription denial, refusal, rejection, revocationtaboo(also tabu)injunction, vetodeterrence, discouragement, repression, suppressionban, embargo, exclusion the act of leaving a placethe party was clearly dying down, and it was time to take our leave decamping, decampment, departing, departure, exit, exiting, farewell, going, leave-taking, lighting out, outgo, parting, quitting, walking out flight, retirement, retreat, running away, withdrawaldiaspora, emigration, evacuation, exodusembarkation, embarkmentdisembarkation, egressabandonment, forsaking, relinquishment advent, appearance, arrival comingapproach, entrance, ingress leaveverbto cause to remain behindyou can leave your lunch in the refrigerator while we're outside starry-eyed lovers who promise never to leave one another abandon, desert, forsake, maroon, quit, strand discard, ditch, dump, fling, jettison, junk, scrap, shed, shuck (off), throw away, throw outdeliver, give up, hand over, relinquish, surrender, yieldescape, retreat (from), take off (from), vacate, withdraw (from)abjure, cut off, disown, reject, renounce, repudiate, separate (from)sacrificedistancedisregard, forget, ignore, neglect walk away from, walk out on reclaim harbor, have, hold, keep, own, possess, reserve, retain, withholdredeem, rescue, save to give by means of a willI'm going to leave all of my possessions to my children to give up (a job or office)he left his job in the city and moved out into the country bag, chuck, quit, resign (from), retire (from), step aside (from), step down (from) abandon, vacatedrop out (of), throw up give notice stay (at) hire (out or on) to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of anotherwhy don't you leave your watch with me while you swim? commend, commit, confide, consign, delegate, deliver, entrust(also intrust), give, give over, hand, hand over, pass, recommend, repose, transfer, transmit, trust, turn over, vest confer, grantassign, deal (out), dispense, disperse, distribute, dividehand in, release, relinquish, submit, surrender, turn in, yieldbequeath, hand down, hand on, willadvance, lend, loanfurnish, supplyrecommit, redeliver, retransfer, retransmit hold, keep, retain detain, hold back, reserve, withholdown, possessaccept, receive, take inoccupy, take, take over to end a usually intimate relationship withis there ever a good way to leave a lover? blow off, break off (with), ditch, dump, jilt, kiss off brush (aside or off), cold-shoulder, cut, high-hat, slight, snubabandon, desert, forsake, maroon, quit kiss good-bye hook up (with), takebefriend, latch (on or onto) to give permission toaw, leave him come allow, let, permit authorize, commission, empower, license(also licence)approve, endorse(also indorse), sanctionfree, liberate, releasecater (to), give in (to), humor, indulge enjoin, forbid, prohibit deter, discouragebar, block, constrain, curb, frustrate, hold back, impede, inhibit, obstruct, prevent before the 12th century |