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LEAVE OFFICE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Give up or retire from a position
Example:
The chairman resigned over the financial scandal
Synonyms:
leave office; quit; resign; step down
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "leave office" is one way to...):
depart; leave; pull up stakes (remove oneself from an association with or participation in)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "leave office"):
give up; renounce; resign; vacate (leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily)
retire (go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position)
top out (give up one's career just as one becomes very successful)
fall (lose office or power)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Antonym:
take office (assume an office, duty, or title)
