Definition of Leave

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Definition of Leave

Leave

To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

To raise; to levy.

Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.

The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; -- used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go.

To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house.

To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.

To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.

To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish.

To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.

To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit -- with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as, leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators.

To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece.

To depart; to set out.

To cease; to desist; to leave off.

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Leave Quotations

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
Thomas Jefferson

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
Thomas Jefferson

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
Wayne Dyer

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Barack Obama

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
Barack Obama

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
Ronald Reagan

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston Churchill

Leave Translations

leave in Afrikaans is verlof, laat, verlaat, vertrek
leave in Dutch is op reis gaan, afreizen
leave in German is verlassen, abfahren
leave in Latin is dimitto, excedo, egredior, discedo, licentia
leave in Norwegian is reise, permisjon, avreise, etterlate
leave in Spanish is irse, abandonar, dejar, expedir

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