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noun
A license or permit for absence from a university or a religious house (such as a monastery).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Leave of absence from a public school or college.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, South-Africa, UK, dated
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noun
A stage direction to leave the stage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, theater
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History
Borrowed from Latin exeat, third-person singular subjunctive of exeō (“depart”) used as an impersonal imperative, literally “let him go forth”.
