Leave Office

Definition: Leave Office

Leave Office

Verb

1. Resign or retire from a position; "The Secretary fo the Navy will leave office next month".

Synonyms: Leave Office

Synonyms: quit (v), step down (v). (additional references)

Antonym: take office (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Leave Office

English words defined with "leave office": abandon ♦ depose ♦ empty ♦ force out ♦ quit ♦ step down ♦ vacate ♦ Walking papers, Walking ticket. (references)

Specialty definitions using "leave office": Adjustment to Immigrant Status ♦ CLERK, TELEVISION PRODUCTION, Consul ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ sheriff. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. (The Rocky Horror Picture Show; writing credit: Richard O'Brien; Jim Sharman)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Zimbabwe	The bills were scheduled for parliamentary debate in early 2002. On February 15, MDC President Tsvangirai was charged under the LOMA with inciting violence for allegedly stating at a public rally in 2000 that President Mugabe would be removed violently if he did not choose to leave office peacefully. (references)
	Kenya	The Government-controlled Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) broadcast a video that showed Kamanda saying that President Moi should be shot if he did not leave office after his current term ended; however, a Kenya Television Network (KTN) news video of the same event indicated that the tape shown on KBC had excluded three words. (references)
	Togo	In September Agence France Presse (AFP) closed its local office for approximately 1 week due to threats from the Prime Minister, who demanded the removal of the Lome based correspondent after the correspondent reported that the President intended to leave office in 2003. At year's end, no further action had been taken in the case of Ame Kpeto, an army warrant officer who made critical statements about government officials at a military assembly in 1998. In 1999 Kpeto was charged with slandering the honor of the army and transferred to the civil prison of Lome to await a civil trial; he still was waiting to be tried at year's end. (references)
Political Economy	Argentina	The rapidly deteriorating economy and a resultant loss of confidence in the national government led Alfonsin to leave office five months early, allowing Menem to assume office in July 1989. This was Argentina's first transfer of power between democratically elected leaders in more than sixty years. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Richard Nixon	1969-1974	To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body.
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	This is the greatest regret that I have as I leave office.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language		Translations for "leave office"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Russian		уйти с должности (resign office). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-f-f-i-l-o-v"
	-5 letters: alcove, cleave, coeval, coffee, coffle, coiffe, efface, facile, fecial, fleece, foveae, foveal, office, veloce.
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