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departure
/dɪˈpɑɹtʃɚ/
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What does departure mean?
noun
- The act of departing or something that has departed.
- A deviation from a plan or procedure.
- A death.
More meanings (4)
noun
- The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian.
- The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.
- The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another
- (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɪˈpɑɹtʃɚ/
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To show that her departure would leave him unmoved, he skipped up and down the room, playing gaily on his heartless pipes.
On the day set for their departure, the principal personages of our story, including good Uncle Venner, were assembled in the parlor.
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The clock struck seven, and the party offered to suspend the game so that Mr. Fogg might make his preparations for departure.
Before taking his departure, the sergeant, in order to acquit his policeman’s conscience, discharged his gun in the direction of Jean Valjean.
Hence he replied that he had reasons for deferring his departure a little, and would be happy to go to the sale.