Take Leave

Definition: Take Leave

Take Leave

Verb

1. Go away or leave.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Take Leave

Departure

Leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose, vamose; go one's way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly, flit, wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go aboard; set sail' put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get under way, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut one's stick; take leave; say good bye, bid goodbye; Noun: disappear; abscond; (avoid); entrain; inspan.

Freedom

Take a liberty; make free with, make oneself quite at home; use a freedom; take leave, take French leave.

Imbecility Folly

Trifle, drivel, radoter, dote; ramble; (madness); play the fool, play the monkey, monkey around, fool around; take leave of one's senses (insanity); not see an inch beyond one's nose; stultify oneself; talk nonsense.

Relinquishment

Verb: relinquish, give up, abandon, desert, forsake, leave in the lurch; go back on; depart from, secede from, withdraw from; back out of; leave, quit, take leave of, bid a long farewell; vacate; (resign).

Crosswords: Take Leave

Books

• Take Leave and Go (reference)

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Civil Liberties

Netherlands

In other areas, antidiscrimination boards have rebuked publicly employers for failure to allow non-Christians to take leave from work on their religious holidays, for objecting to Sikhs wearing turbans, Muslim women wearing headscarves, or to observance of food requirements on religious grounds. (references)

Human Rights

Uganda

In July Lydia Kamanyi, the deputy campaign manager for Aggrey Awori, was forced to take leave from her position following harassment by officials. (references)

Women

Italy

A March 2000 law on parental leave grants mothers and fathers an equal right to take leave when a child is sick. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "take leave": take leave of ♦ take leave of one's senses ♦ take leave of one's senses insanity ♦ To take leave. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afskeid neem (say, say goodbye, say goodbye to, take, take leave from). (various references)

Albanian

përshëndetem (be greeted, say good-bye, take leave of, take one's leave), i jap lamtumirën (say good bye to, take leave of), çmendem (go crazy, go mad, mad, madden, take leave of, take leave of one's senses). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فقد عقله (go mad, lose one's head, mad, take leave of one's senses), ‏جن (demons, fairy, go crazy, go haywire, go mad, goblin, jinn, lose one's marbles, mad, take leave of one's senses), ‏أخذ إجازة (take leave of). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сбогувам се с (take leave of), изгубвам ума си (take leave of one's senses). (various references)

Chinese 

辭 (bid farewell, decline, diction, resign, say goodbye). (various references)

Czech

jít na dovolenou. (various references)

Danish

tage afsked med (say goodbye, say goodbye to, take leave from), tage afsked (say goodbye, say goodbye to, take leave from). (various references)

Dutch

vaarwel zeggen (say goodbye, say goodbye to, take leave from), afscheid nemen van (say goodbye, say goodbye to, take leave from), afscheid nemen (say goodbye, say goodbye to, take leave from). (various references)

Esperanto

adiaŭi (say goodbye, say goodbye to, take leave from). (various references)

Finnish

hyvästellä (bid a person farewell, take leave of a person), heittää hyvästi jollekulle (take leave of). (various references)

French

faire ses adieux (take leave from), dire adieu (take leave from). (various references)

German

Abschied nehmen (say good-bye, take smb.'s leave, to take leave). (various references)

Hebrew 

לצאת מ�"עתו (become crazy, lose one's mind, take leave of one's senses). (various references)

Hungarian

vkitől (have no claim on sy's charity, to be in bodily fear of sy, to debar sy a right, to descend from sy, to hear from sy, to rive sg from sy, to stump, to take leave of sy), istenhozzádot mond vkinek (to take leave of sy), elveszti az eszét (to go out of one's mind, to go silly over sy, to lose one's bearings, to take leave of one's senses), elveszti a józan eszét (lose one's marbles, lose one's reason, take leave of one's senses, to take leave of one's senses), eltávozik (come away, go away, to bow out, to clear off, to depart, to get off, to go off, to take leave, to take one's departure), elmegy (betake, check out, depart, egress, flit, go, go away, go off, go with, leave, left, off it, pass out, take off, to chase oneself, to check out, to go away, to go forth, to go off, to go past, to leave, to leave for, to march off, to piss off, to push off, to put over, to quit, to resort, to sally forth, to sheer off, to sod off, to take leave, to take one's departure, to turkey off, to turn away, to visit), elhagy valakit (take leave of), elbúcsúzik vkitől (to bid farewell to sy, to take leave of sy), elbúcsúzik valakitõl (say good bye to, take leave of), elbúcsúzik (farewell, part company, say good-bye, to bow out, to part, to say goodby, to say goodbye, to take leave, to take leave of sy), búcsút vesz vkitől (to take leave of sy), búcsút vesz (to take leave), búcsút mond vkinek (to take leave of sy), bátorkodik vmit megtenni (to presume to do sg, to take leave to do sg). (various references)

Icelandic

kveðja (say goodbye, say goodbye to, take leave from). (various references)

Italian

dire addio (say, say goodbye, say goodbye to, take, take leave from), accomiatare (dismiss). (various references)

Norwegian

ta farvel med (say goodbye, say goodbye to, take leave from), ta farvel (say goodbye, say goodbye to, take leave from). (various references)

Papiamen

dispidí (say goodbye, say goodbye to, take leave from, waste), despedí (say goodbye, say goodbye to, take leave from). (various references)

Pig Latin

aketay eavelay

Portuguese

dizeradeus (say goodbye, say goodbye to, take leave from), despedir‐se (say goodbye, say goodbye to, take leave from), daradeus (say goodbye, say goodbye to, take leave from). (various references)

Romanian

a-şi lua rãmas bun (bid farewell, part company, say good bye to). (various references)

Russian 

сойти с ума (go bughouse, go bugs, go crazy, go loco, go mad, lose one's marbles, take leave of one's senses), распроститься (take leave of), проститься (say good-bye, take leave of), прощаться с (take leave of), прощаться (bid farewell, bid goodbye, farewell, take leave of). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rastati (part), otići (depart, get over, go along, go away, go off, hive off, leave, pull out, push off, ship, take one's leave, turn away). (various references)

Spanish

despedirse (kiss off, part, part company, part from, say goodbye, say goodbye to, take leave from). (various references)

Swedish

säga adjö till (say goodbye, say goodbye to, take leave from), säga adjö (say goodbye, say goodbye to, take leave from). (various references)

Turkish

veda etmek (bid a person adieu, bid farewell, bid smb. farewell, make one's adieus, make one's farewells, take leave of, take one's farewell of, take one's leave). (various references)

Turkmen 

hoюlaюmak (say good-bye, take leave of). (various references)

Zulu

-valelisa (say goodbye, say goodbye to, take leave from). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: elevate.

-3 letters: vakeel, velate.

-4 letters: akela, alate, elate, keeve, kevel, latke, leave, levee, telae, valet.

-5 letters: akee, alae, alee, eave, kale, kata, kava, keel, keet, lake, late, lava, lave, leak, leek, leet, leke, leva, tael, taka, take, tala, tale, talk, teak, teal, teel, tela, tele, vale, veal, vela.