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  1. transitive verb To go out of or away from: not allowed to leave the room.
  2. transitive verb To go without taking or removing: left my book on the bus.
  3. transitive verb To omit or exclude: left out the funniest part of the story.
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  • The length of their leave is therefore shortened by just so many days There are a number of customs observed by the cadets which I shall describe here To disregard these customs is to show--at least it is so construed--a want of pride. —  Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point
  • The study authors noted that just having maternity leave benefits offered by an employer was not helpful in breastfeeding establishment unless the leave was actually used, indicating the importance of encouraging the use of maternity leave and making it economically feasible to take it. —  innovations-report
  • If the leave is approved the employee will be allowed to return on the agreed upon date and will be given a position as close to the one he / she left as practical. —  Romenesko
  • "I think the problem is that neither side knows the other," says Rosenbaum, a professor on leave from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and also affiliated with Cambridge University.
  • Once your leave is approved, go to your nearest travel agency or search for one online to check out the different rates and schedules available for flights to London.
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  1. Middle English leaven, from Old English lǣfan; see leip- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English leve, from Old English lēafe, dative and accusative of lēaf; see leubh- in Indo-European roots.
  3. Middle English leaven, from leaf, leaf; see leaf.

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  1. Early modern English leeve, leve, from Middle English leeven, leven (preterit left, lefte, laft, lafte, lefde, plural lefte, levede, past participle left, laft, yleft), from Anglo-Saxon lǣfan, transitive, leave (a heritage), also intransitive, remain (= Old Saxon far-lēbhian, remain, lēbhōn, remain, = OFries. lēva, leave, = Old High German Middle High German leiben, transitive, leave, Old High German leibēn, intransitive, remain, = Icelandic leifa, leave), a secondary verb, associated with lāf, a heritage, what is left, remainder (later Middle English laif, lafe, lave, Scots lave: see lave), from līfan, preterit *lāf, in comp. be-līfan (= Old Saxon bi-lībhan = OFries. bi-līva, be-līva, blīva = Middle Dutch blīven, Dutch blijven = Middle Low German blīven = Old High German be-līban, Middle High German be-līben, blīben (also ge-līben, verlīben), German bleiben = Icelandic līfa (orig. strong, as in past participle lifen, but early displaced by the weak form lifa = Anglo-Saxon lifian, English live) (also blīfa = Danish blive = Swedish blifva, after G.) = Gothic (Moesogothic) bi-leiban), be left, remain, whence also lif, life, lifian, libban, live: see life, live. The verb leave is not connected with the noun leave in the phrase to take leave.
  2. from leave, v.
  3. from Middle English leve, leef, from Anglo-Saxon leáf, permission, = D. -lof in urlof, permission, = Middle High German loube, German laube, also -laub in ur-laub, verlaub, permission, = Icelandic lof (also leyfi), permission, = Danish lov = Swedish lof, permission, a secondary noun, in relation with leóf, dear, gely¯fan, believe: see lief, belief, believe, leeve.
  4. from leaf, n.
  5. from F, lever, raise: see lever, levy.
 

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