LEAVE OFFICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leave office mean? 

• LEAVE OFFICE (verb)
  The verb LEAVE OFFICE has 1 sense:

1. give up or retire from a position

  Familiarity information: LEAVE OFFICE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEAVE OFFICE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give up or retire from a position

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

leave office; quit; resign; step down

Context example:

The chairman resigned over the financial scandal

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)