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leavesnounpl. of leave 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 breaks, holidays(chiefly British), hols(British), recesses, vacations sabbaticalsfurloughs, libertiesbreathers, relaxations, respites, restsinterims, intermissions, intervalsfeasts, holy days, legal holidays 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 allowances, authorizations, clearances, concurrences, consents, green lights, licenses(or licences), permissions, sanctions, sufferances, warrants imprimaturs, seals, signatures, stampsaccreditations, certificationsliberties, passesconcessions, patents, permitstolerances, tolerationsacceptances, acquiescences, agreements, assents, OKs(or okays)accords, grants interdictions, prohibitions, proscriptions denials, refusals, rejections, revocationstaboos(also tabus)injunctions, vetoesdeterrences, discouragements, repressions, suppressionsbans, embargoes, exclusions the act of leaving a placethe party was clearly dying down, and it was time to take our leave decampments, departures, exits, farewells, goings, leave-takings, outgoes, partings flights, retirements, retreats, withdrawalsdiasporas, emigrations, evacuations, exodusesembarkations, embarkmentsdisembarkations, egressesabandonments, relinquishments advents, appearances, arrivals comingsapproaches, entrances, ingresses leavesverbpresent tense third-person singular of leaveto 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 abandons, deserts, forsakes, maroons, quits, strands discards, ditches, dumps, flings, jettisons, junks, scraps, sheds, shucks (off), throws away, throws outdelivers, gives up, hands over, relinquishes, surrenders, yieldsescapes, retreats (from), takes off (from), vacates, withdraws (from)abjures, cuts off, disowns, rejects, renounces, repudiates, separates (from)sacrificesdistancesdisregards, forgets, ignores, neglects walks away from, walks out on reclaims harbors, has, holds, keeps, owns, possesses, reserves, retains, withholdsredeems, rescues, saves 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 bags, chucks, quits, resigns (from), retires (from), steps aside (from), steps down (from) abandons, vacatesdrops out (of), throws up gives notice stays (at) hires (out or on) to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of anotherwhy don't you leave your watch with me while you swim? commends, commits, confides, consigns, delegates, delivers, entrusts(also intrusts), gives, gives over, hands, hands over, passes, recommends, reposes, transfers, transmits, trusts, turns over, vests confers, grantsassigns, deals (out), dispenses, disperses, distributes, divideshands in, releases, relinquishes, submits, surrenders, turns in, yieldsbequeaths, hands down, hands on, willsadvances, lends, loansfurnishes, suppliesrecommits, redelivers, retransfers, retransmits holds, keeps, retains detains, holds back, reserves, withholdsowns, possessesaccepts, receives, takes inoccupies, takes, takes over to end a usually intimate relationship withis there ever a good way to leave a lover? blows off, breaks off (with), ditches, dumps, jilts, kisses off brushes (aside or off), cold-shoulders, cuts, high-hats, slights, snubsabandons, deserts, forsakes, maroons, quits kisses good-bye hooks up (with), takesbefriends, latches (on or onto) to give permission toaw, leave him come allows, lets, permits authorizes, commissions, empowers, licenses(also licences)approves, endorses(also indorses), sanctionsfrees, liberates, releasescaters (to), gives in (to), humors, indulges enjoins, forbids, prohibits deters, discouragesbars, blocks, constrains, curbs, frustrates, holds back, impedes, inhibits, obstructs, prevents |