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exit
1[ eg-zit, ek-sit ]
noun
- a way or passage out:
Please leave the theater by the nearest exit.
- any of the marked ramps or spurs providing egress from a highway:
Take the second exit after the bridge for the downtown shopping district.
- a going out or away; departure:
to make one's exit.
- a departure of an actor from the stage as part of the action of a play.
- 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)
- to go out; leave.
- Bridge. to play an exit card.
verb (used with object)
- to leave; depart from:
Sign out before you exit the building.
exit
2[ eg-zit, ek-sit ]
verb (used without object)
- (a person) goes offstage (used as a stage direction, often preceding the name of the character):
Exit Falstaff.
exit
1/ ˈɛksɪt; ˈɛɡzɪt /
noun
- a way out; door or gate by which people may leave
- the act or an instance of going out; departure
- the act of leaving or right to leave a particular place
- ( as modifier )
an exit visa
- departure from life; death
- theatre the act of going offstage
- (in Britain) a point at which vehicles may leave or join a motorway
- bridge
- the act of losing the lead deliberately
- a card enabling one to do this
verb
- to go away or out; depart; leave
- theatre to go offstage: used as a stage direction
exit Hamlet
- bridge to lose the lead deliberately
- sometimes tr computing to leave (a computer program or system)
Exit
2/ ˈɛksɪt; ˈɛɡzɪt /
noun
- (in Britain) a society that seeks to promote the legitimization of voluntary euthanasia
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Example Sentences
In 2012, Obama narrowly beat Mitt Romney among Florida Cubans, according to exit polls.
Will these resurrected animals be house-trained and know to exit the pearly gates before doing their business?
But not until Gregory Peck is humiliated and walks out do we cut high and long to show his exit.
As you exit your teenage years, are there artist you would like to emulate?
By contrast, in 2012, the military vote split down the middle between Obama and Romney, according to exit polls.
In the meantime, the outlaw, having observed how much more cordially the tyrant is received than himself, has made his exit.
His bosom friend, John Barton, made his exit from the world's stage April 16, 1875.
Its entrance into and exit from banks is a flow, but not a circulation against goods.
He walked rapidly to the outer door, which opened at his approach and closed noiselessly behind him as he made his exit.
He'd plant himself there in that narrow exit, and if the crimesters thought there was an avenue of escape, let them try.
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