English verb: leave office | |||
1. | leave office (social) give up or retire from a position | ||
Samples | The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month. The chairman resigned over the financial scandal. | ||
Synonyms | quit, resign, step down | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
Broader (hypernym) | depart, leave, pull up stakes | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | fall, give up, renounce, resign, retire, top out, vacate | ||
Antonyms | take office | ||