LEAVE-TAKING Synonyms

• the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty

• permission to do something

• the act of departing politely

• go away from a place

• go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness

• act or be so as to become in a specified state

• leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking

• move out of or depart from

• make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain

• produce as a result or residue

• remove oneself from an association with or participation in

• put into the care or protection of someone

• leave or give by will after one's death

• have left or have as a remainder

• be survived by after one's death

• transmit (knowledge or skills)

• leave behind unintentionally

• the act of departing politely

• a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions

• a farewell remark

• the act of departing

• a variation that deviates from the standard or norm

• euphemistic expressions for death

• a farewell remark

• an organized expression of goodwill at the start of a trip or new venture

• a start given to contestants

• a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class)

• the act of saying farewell