farewell address

noun

1. (initial capital letters) U.S. History. a statement that President George Washington published in a Philadelphia newspaper in 1796 to announce that he would not run for a third term and to give his views on foreign and domestic policy.
2. a speech delivered by someone upon leaving a job, post, etc.

Example Sentences

In fact, he had wanted to step down after one term, and even went as far as asking James Madison to write him a farewell address before being convinced to stay on for four more years.

From Washington Post

As Simon Cowell rightly pointed out in his farewell address, you are the judges.

From The Daily Beast

Or as Patrick Kennedy put it in his farewell address: “My life is taking a new direction.”

From The Daily Beast

We here give his farewell address, which will be read with mournful interest and high admiration.

From Project Gutenberg

About 11 o'clock the next morning the entire prison force was summoned to the rotunda to hear the farewell address of the warden.

From Project Gutenberg

In view of such retirement, he had prepared a farewell address to the people.

From Project Gutenberg

At that meeting Elder Engle delivered a farewell address with power and unction from on High, and the rest told of their call.

From Project Gutenberg

Washington, the first President, emphasized in his farewell address the danger of entangling alliances with Europe.

From Project Gutenberg