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ex⋅it

1[eg-zit, ek-sit]
–noun
1. a way or passage out: Please leave the theater by the nearest exit.
2. any of the marked ramps or spurs providing egress from a highway: Take the second exit after the bridge for the downtown shopping district.
3. a going out or away; departure: to make one's exit.
4. a departure of an actor from the stage as part of the action of a play.
5. Also called exit card. Bridge. a card that enables a player to relinquish the lead when having it is a disadvantage.
–verb (used without object)
6. to go out; leave.
7. Bridge. to play an exit card.
–verb (used with object)
8. to leave; depart from: Sign out before you exit the building.

Origin:
1580–90; partly < L exitus act or means of going out, equiv. to exi-, var. s. of exīre to go out (ex- ex- 1 + īre to go) + -tus suffix of v. action; partly n., v. use of exit 2
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