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   exit

   /ˈɛksɪt/

   noun

   • 1. a way out of a building, room, or passenger vehicle: "she slipped out by the rear exit" Similar way outdooregresspassage outescape routedoorwaygategatewayportaloutletventOpposite entrance
   • ▪ a place for traffic to leave a major road or roundabout: "she slowed for a roundabout, taking the second exit" Similar turningturn-offturnside roadturnout
   • 2. an act of leaving a place: "he made a hasty exit from the room" Similar departureleavingwithdrawalretirementgoingdecampingretreatpull-outevacuationleave-takingfarewelladieuflightexodusescapeinformal:quittingOpposite arrival
   • ▪ a departure of an actor from the stage: "the brief soliloquy following Clarence's exit"
   • ▪ a departure from a particular situation: "Australia's early exit from the World Cup" Similar departureleavingwithdrawalretirementgoingdecampingretreatpull-outevacuationleave-takingfarewelladieuflightexodusescapeinformal:quittingOpposite arrival
   • ▪ a person's death. literary

   verb

   • 1. go out of or leave a place: "he exited from the changing rooms"
   • ▪ (of an actor) leave the stage.
   • ▪ used as a stage direction in a play to indicate that an actor leaves the stage: "exit Pamela"
   • ▪ leave a particular situation: "organizations which do not have freedom to exit from unprofitable markets"
   • ▪ die.
   • ▪ terminate a process or program: "this key enables you to temporarily exit from a LIFESPAN option"
   • ▪ relinquish the lead: "declarer must cash his top spades and exit with ♦2"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (as a stage direction): from Latin exit ‘he or she goes out’, third person singular present tense of exire, from ex- ‘out’ + ire ‘go’. The noun (late 16th century) is from Latin exitus ‘going out’, from the verb exire, and the other verb uses (early 17th century) derive from it.

   Derivatives

   • 1. exitless adjective

   Scrabble Points: 11

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   The meaning of EXIT is —used as a stage direction to specify who goes off stage. How to use exit in a sentence.

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   EXIT definition: 1. the door through which you might leave a building or large vehicle: 2. the act of leaving a…. Learn more.

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   the door through which you might leave a room, building, or large vehicle, or a place on a main road where a vehicle can leave it by taking a smaller road: In case of fire, use the emergency exit next to the elevator. Stay on the freeway until you get to the Ventura exit.

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   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.

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   If you refer to someone's exit, you are referring to the way that they left a situation or activity, or the fact that they left it.

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   To exit is to go out of or leave a place. When an actor exits, he moves off the stage and out of sight of the audience. You can literally exit a room or a building, or exit in a more figurative way: "She decided to exit politics after two terms as Senator."

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   n. 1. a way out; door or gate by which people may leave. 2. the act or an instance of going out; departure. 3. a. the act of leaving or right to leave a particular place. b. ( as modifier ): an exit visa. 4. departure from life; death. 5. (Theatre) theatre the act of going offstage.