take leave

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take leave

verb takes leave · taking leave · took leave · taken leave

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, leave. Romney had already taken leave from Bain Capital by the time the American Pad & Paper layoffs took place.
often, with of To depart. So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry.

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@misc{take_leave_2026,
  title = {take leave},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/take%20leave},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}