LEAVE OFFICE
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)
Meaning:
Give up or retire from a position
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
leave office; step down; quit; resign
Context examples:
The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month / 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)
