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noun
1.
a way or passage out: Please leave the theater by the nearest exit.
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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.
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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.
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Bridge. to play an exit card.
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Exited
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verb (used with object)
8.
to leave; depart from: Sign out before you exit the building.
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exit
1530s, from L. exit "he or she goes out," third person sing. pres. indicative of exire "go out," from ex- "out" + ire "go." Also from L. exitus "a leaving, a going out," noun of action from exire. Originally in English as a stage direction (late 15c.); sense of "door for leaving" is 1786. The verb is
EXPANDc.1600, from the noun; it ought to be left to stage directions and the clunky jargon of police reports. Related: Exited; exiting.
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