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Meaning of 'departure' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Departure [ n.]
- Division; separation; putting away.
- Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.
- Removal from the present life; death; decease.
- Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.
- The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
- The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.

Meaning of 'departure' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . departure [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a variation that deviates from the standard or norm
Example in sentence:
  • the deviation from the mean
Meaning (2):
- euphemistic expressions for death
Example in sentence:
  • thousands mourned his passing

Nearby Words:

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