exeat
Americannoun
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permission granted by a bishop to a priest to leave the diocese.
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British. official permission for a student to be absent from a college or university.
noun
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leave of absence from school or some other institution
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a bishop's permission for a priest to leave his diocese in order to take up an appointment elsewhere
Etymology
Origin of exeat
1475–85; noun use of Latin exeat let (him) go out, 3rd person singular present subjunctive of exīre to go out
Example Sentences
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It also conferred on Timothy Abbott a "ne exeat" right, which means the child's mother could not take him out of Chile without his father's consent.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2010
The schoolboy who has obtained his exeat for a few days as he bounds off to the station to catch his train, may be thought to have left all care behind him.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
BINNEY,—I enclose the exeat which you will require in order to enable you to leave Cambridge for the Christmas vacation.
From Peter Binney A Novel by Archibald Marshall
She did, rather; but I asked her if Nesta and I might have an exeat this afternoon to go to the Vicarage.
From A harum-scarum schoolgirl by John Campbell
Marjorie was almost glad that on her next exeat at The Tamarisks Elaine was away from home.
From A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Balliol Salmon
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