Definition of Leave office

1. Verb. Give up or retire from a position. "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"

Exact synonyms: Quit, Resign, Step Down
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

leatwrights
leaue
leavable
leave
leave-taking
leave alone
leave behind
leave everything on the road
leave for dead
leave me alone
leave no stone unturned
leave nothing in the tank
leave nothing to the imagination
leave of absence
leave off
leave office (current term)
leave one's options open
leave out
leave over
leave somebody high and dry
leave somebody holding the bag
leave someone in the lurch
leave to one's own devices
leave well enough alone
leaved
leaveless
leaven
leavened
leavening
leavening agent

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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