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leave word

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  1. Leave a message, as in Please leave word at the desk when you check out, or I left word abut my plans with the secretary; didn't she tell you? This expression employs word in the sense of “information,” a usage dating from the 10th century.


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I’d read the book overnight, and Bowman had stood by for my assessment, but I had some kind of urgent appointment, and had to leave word with my friend Maureen, knowing he’d call.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 2, 2019

He would call at Barnard’s Hotel Tuesday morning at nine o’clock, when if not agreeable please leave word.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

“We must talk soon. I’ll leave word with Mr. Watch.”

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett

Tolney Greene was one of the lucky ones, and the Evans had left, promising to leave word regarding the others at Upernivik and other ports.

From First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle by Edward Stratemeyer

Yet here was Jack Murray not only leaving town hastily, as though he feared capture, but taking pains to leave word where he was going.

From The Rider of Golden Bar by William Patterson White

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