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leave-taking

/leev-tey-king/US // ˈlivˌteɪ kɪŋ //

辞行,辞别,辞旧迎新,告别

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inseparation

Examples

  • “We all shook hands and my client told me to leave,” he said.

  • Some of them already are in Germany taking language lessons.

  • Some seventy-plus countries currently offer some paternity leave or parental leave days reserved for the father.

  • But outside of a few European countries and Quebec, this leave is usually two weeks or less and usually unpaid.

  • Certainly paid paternity leave is part of it (and in the U.S., we need paid maternity and paternity leave).

  • They are very urgent questions; our sons and daughters will have to begin to deal with them from the moment they leave college.

  • As Perker said this, he looked towards the door, with an evident desire to render the leave-taking as brief as possible.

  • Now for the tempering of the Gudgeons, I leave it to the judgment of the Workman; but a word or two of the polishing of it.

  • It was such a magnificent sum that Sol did not feel like taking the familiarity with it of mentioning it aloud.

  • This may be done by taking the humming tone and bringing to bear upon it a strong pressure of energy.