exitn.
/ˈɛksɪt/, /ˈɛɡzɪt/, U.S. /ˈɛɡzət/, /ˈɛksət/ 1. In plural. Return, yield, profit; revenues. Now historical.
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1564 in Orkney & Shetland Rec. (1907) I. 156 The aforesaid lands..with courts and their exits, hereȝelds, fines, [etc.]
1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross 97 The Courts of the said Earldom shall be holden by the Senescall, with the Exites and Contingents of the Men dwelling in the lands.
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxviii. 674 The exits of the manor are little more than a fourth of the amount recorded in 1332.
1971 Agric. Hist. Rev. 19 126 Information as to the crop rotations adopted and the lengths of continuous tillage on specific fields is obtainable from several sequences of compoti with detailed grange exits.
2003 B. M. S. Campbell in R. H. Britnell Winchester Pipe Rolls & Medieval Eng. Soc. 32 The pipe rolls typically record arrears of rent, rents of assize,..the exits of the manor, the farms of lands, [etc.].
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the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] > outcome or that which results
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1570 T. Knell Piththy Note to Papists sig. A.iiiv Feltons life did shew in fine he did no Martyrs fact: For exitus acta probat the exit tries the act.
1658 T. Bromhall Treat. Specters 260 Going to a bank of a River, having many accompanying her, that they might know the event and exit of the businesse, she brought a sieve full of the Water of the River to the High Priest.
3. An act of going out or out and away, a departure from a place or situation; an emergence. Also: means of going out or leaving; passage out of a place.port(al) of exit: see port n.3 6, portal n.1 4.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun]
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1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible i. 70 Let vs now number from Israels Exit from Ægypt hitherto.
1605 G. Chapman et al. Eastward Hoe iii. sig. E2 M. Francis, watch you th'instant time To Enter with his Exit.
1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 4 Sowre is the Exit..Of the salacious Cyprian Emperess.
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing iv. 35 They might finde an easie..exit, almost every where.
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. vii. iv. 390 There should be one part provided for the Formation of the Body before it's Exit into the World.
1775 J. Bryant New Syst. (ed. 2) II. 469 The exit from the Ark; when the whole of the animal system issued to light.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 320 The cover should contain two holes, one for the exit of the steam, [etc.].
1818 Dublin Hosp. Rep. & Communications Med. & Surg. 2 315 A small puncture with a lancet..gave exit to a large quantity of urine.
1849 G. P. R. James Woodman III. iii. 48 The man had just given admission or exit to some one.
1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) viii. §393 There is sometimes..another exit of warm water from the Indian Ocean.
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 271 A leaf-trace consisting of a single bundle, which does not divide into three bundles till its exit at the node into the leaf.
1910 E. M. Forster Howards End ix. 71 The course of the Oder is to be like music... There is a slodgy theme in several keys at once, meaning mud-banks,..and the exit into the Baltic is in C sharp major.
1950 High School Jrnl. 33 86 Fire safety brings up the topic of type of construction, with regard..to ease of exit from the building.
1987 Pilot Apr. 58/2 A Cessna 207..was to be used for a simultaneous five-man exit at 9,000 feet.
2010 New Yorker 3 May 75/1 Simon's father..made frequent traumatic exits from the family for ‘anywhere from a month to a year at a time’.
4. An actor's departure from the stage.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > [noun] > exit from stage
exit1598
walk-off1936
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 588 Keepe some state in thy exit, and vanish. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 141 They haue their Exits and their Entrances. View more context for this quotation
1648 C. Walker Relations & Observ. i. 18 My Exit shall be accompanied with an applauze.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 51. ⁋6 When the Actors made their Exit.
1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 235 The eyes of all..were upon her..as she made her exit.
1892 J. S. Wood Old Beau 212 Marie made her exit covered with flowers, triumphant amid the crashing applause.
1923 Humorist 17 Nov. 406/1 Just as he was making an exit on the o.p. side, four supers..pounced upon him from behind a canvas pillar.
1957 A. C. Scott Classical Theatre China Gloss. 234 Liu yao ling hsia, musical style used for actor's exit.
1990 Amateur Stage Aug. 14/3 Paul, our stage manager, marked out all the seven doorways on the floor to ease the confusion of entrances and exits.
5. figurative and in figurative contexts and extended uses of senses 3, 4.
a. An act of departing from life, a death.
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1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xl. 131 We may make an Exit from our life which doth not please, as from a stage.
1645 Char. Oxf.-incendiary 5 Avaunt you Black-coats, the Court-Pageants are Entring; Strafford without a head: But let him passe for a Dumbe show; the Tyrant hath had his Exit already by Order of Parliament.
1685 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. ccclxxxii. 338 He made as very glorious christian exit..as ere was known.
1728 in G. Lamoine Charges to Grand Jury (1992) 236 It is here, that they Associate and turn House-Breakers, and Street-Robbers, and so, by quick Progressions at last make an Exit at the Gallows.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 377 Such of our malefactors as make a penitent exit.
1794 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) I. vii. 222 I stayed..in town to witness the exit of the cidevant Jacobin, Mr. Watt.
1810 M. Berry Let. 11 Nov. (1865) II. 437 What a singularly enviable exit This good old soul..has been blessed, out of this suffering world.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xiv. 362 That such a kiddy should have made his public exit from the Tyburn stage in an embroidered dress..was befitting his ‘exquisite’ nature.
1937 Boys' Life Aug. 28/2 He now had other, more spectacular plans, for the bobcat's exit from life.
2013 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 8 June 6 That moment was the end of life for Matthew Wonaeamirri,..someone no one expected to make so abrupt an exit from this world.
b. gen. An act of departing from a sphere of action, a departure.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > avoiding an action or condition > turning aside from a course of action
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aberrance1661
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1615 T. Adams Mystical Bedlam i. 25 The more men act, the more they affect; & the exit of one sinne, is anothers hinte of entrance: that the stage of his heart is neuer empty, till the tragedy of his soule be done.
a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vi. v. 214 This sleep was upon the Exit of his Vision.
1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 58 The difficult matter is to have the same applause at ones exit.
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 5 When, on their Exit, Souls are bid unrobe,..And drop this Mask of Flesh behind the Scene.
1791 T. Paine Rights of Man i. 68 This species of imaginary consequence..hastens to its exit.
1835 R. Mant Brit. Months I. 85 Thence the homely proverb grew, Which mark'd its [sc. March's] entrance fierce and wild In contrast with its exit mild.
1874 J. Morley On Compromise 99 Progress would mean something more than mere entrances and exits on the theatre of office.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 76 Forgetfulness is the exit of memory.
1917 Seventh Regiment Gaz. June 168/1 It is fitting that his exit from the regiment should be the exit of the Field Music too.
1950 A. Jacobsohn & P. S. Jacobsohn tr. W. Röpke Social Crisis of our Time i. i. 66 Every century making its exit seems to rise to a final effort by means of a ‘second pull’ before it expires.
1998 City Paper (Baltimore) 11 May 16/1 McGarry seems unconcerned by the recent spate of high-profile exits and bad publicity.
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the world > space > relative position > end or extremity > [noun]
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headOE
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hinder end?1523
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > the latter part
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1615 E. Evans Verba Dierum 180 A Day-like Actuarie of the Dayes Relation, maketh the sweetest and most Glorious close, or Exit, of this Psalme.
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xlviii. sig. Q7 The exit of the Verse will tell him.
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1776) 125 Towards the exit of January, or early in February.
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a. A space through which people or things may go out; an outlet; a way out of a building, room, vehicle, or other enclosed space, especially out of a public building, etc.emergency exit, fire exit, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > place of exit
outcoming?c1225
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [noun] > door > doorway > affording public exit
exit1652
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iv. ii. sig. Bbbbb3 The Ayr he found to be whole and temperate, the Sea shores to be full of Baies, Havens, and the Exits of Rivers.
a1661 R. Bargrave Trav. Diary (1999) 153 Two Statues..stand like porters, one at the entrance, the other at the Exit of the Galleries.
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 120 The rest [of the rain]..cannot make its way to Wells, the perpendicular Fissures, or the like Exits.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Thoracic Thoracic duct,..is a little Canal arising from, or rather a Continuation of, the Exit or Mouth of the Receptaculum Chyli.
1786 W. Gilpin Observ. Mountains & Lakes Cumberland I. 165 At the conclusion of this..amphitheatre..we found an exit.
1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage li. 661 We soon met with the ice pack, and ran along it up Barrow's strait; but to no purpose, as there was no exit any where.
1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 66 An enclosure..which was surrounded by a great ditch and had no exit.
1881 R. D'Oyly Carte in W. Hamilton Aesthetic Movement (1882) 39 There are exits and entrances on all four sides, giving two exits from every part of the house.
1904 C. S. Dougall Burns Country i. 7 Travellers setting out through the Kyle port, the eastern exit of the ‘ancient borough’.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake i. 127 Endurses his doom at chapel exit.
1983 Buses Feb. 56/2 This [bus] was fitted with a dual exit and a standee area on the lower deck.
2007 G. Hurley One Under Prelude 2 The tunnel exit in sight, he pulled the train to a halt.
b. A junction at which a vehicle may leave a major road, esp. a motorway or (U.S.) expressway, by driving off on to a slip road; a slip road of this kind, an off-ramp. Also: the junction of a road and a roundabout; a road by which a vehicle may leave a roundabout.freeway exit: see the first element.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > for wheeled vehicles > for fast motor traffic > exit from
exit1919
freeway exit1941
1919 Highway Engineer & Contractor Sept. 41/2 Whether or not these broad entries and exits are constructed now, provision should be made to build them later by securing rights of way first.
1933 Roads & Road Constr. June 195/1 A more acute turn into the roundabout and a straight exit would seem to be necessary.
1959 N.Y. Times 28 May 22/6 Congestion..can be avoided by using the Willis Avenue cut-off, one exit to the west.
1968 Highway Code 24 If you find that you are heading away from where you want to go, you must carry on until you reach the next exit.
1980 A.A. Bk. Driving 65/4 Get off the motorway at the next exit..or at the first service area.
1997 J. G. Beattie Gregory's Angels 100 Second Exit at Roundabout into Castlebar Hill.
2013 L. A. Bidwell Mount Rushmore & Black Hills 14/1 Head west on I-90 and take exit 110 at the town of Wall.
8. Cards (esp. Bridge). A means of deliberately relinquishing the lead; (also) the action of doing this.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > actions or tactics > specific
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false-carding1923
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exit1934
reverse1936
loser-on-loser1947
1934 Times 24 Apr. 17/5 The 10 of Hearts must be preserved as a card of exit and used at trick seven.
1959 Listener 24 Sept. 506/2 If South has a doubleton club he will have the safe exit which was denied him.
1960 T. Reese Play Bridge with Reese iii. 20 I have got to eliminate their cards of exit.
2008 Times 21 July 52/2 A safe minor-suit exit then ensures a third defensive trick.
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a. General attributive, as (in senses 3, 7) exit gate, exit passage, exit route, exit sign, etc., (in sense 8) exit play, etc.
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1798 Monthly Mag. Aug. 127/1 The regress of the water is prevented by the shutting of the exit-valve.
1820 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 1 94 The exit passage of the chamber..is raised above the level of the fluid metal in the condensing or vacuum passage.
1840 Mechanics' Mag. 16 May 720/1 The exit stairs are on both sides of the main staircase.
1862 Internat. Exhib.: Kingdom of Italy: Official Descr. Catal. p. xxviii Honourable Mention... For their model of exit gates for irrigation.
1890 A. Lansdowne Life's Remin. Scotl. Yard xiii To leave the Monument Station by the exit staircase.
1902 Ophthalmic Rev. 21 166 The exit route from the eye is more or less completely blocked.
1903 Ann. Rep. Mich. Bureau Labor & Industr. Stat. 20 263 Put up fire escape; three iron ladders; exit signs.
1935 Bridge Mag. Oct. 231/1 Possibly the term ‘exit play’ is not the best name for the manœuvre of which I speak. It is called an end play, or an elimination, or a throw-in.
1950 F. C. Craighead Insect Enemies Eastern Forests 267 The pupal cell is constructed in the sapwood or bark, the adult making the exit hole.
1967 H. Hood Camera always Lies ii. viii. 85 They had said nothing to the driver, but telepathically he now swerved into an exit ramp.
1970 Boys' Life Sept. 61/4 An inmate might awake and..slip down the exit passage to the pond below.
1987 S. Barr & J. Poppy Flame x. 74 Here I was on a road bypassing the big city, peering through a torrent of snowflakes for an exit sign.
1990 D. DiMaggio & B. Gilbert Real Grass, Real Heroes xiv. 189 He hit a 3-1 pitch off the screen over the exit gate in right center field.
2000 J. Goldman Dreamworld ii. 7 The exit-area attendants..had ambled over to stand near Avery.
2006 Time Out N.Y. 20 July 64/1 Referring to a means of resisting the status quo, a ‘line of flight’ is less an exit route..than a loose thread.
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exit door n.
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1823 Album Aug. 85 On the side of the exit door are two priestesses dressed like Bacchanals in panther skins.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 766/1 Exit doors must open outwards.
2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 22 The Dreadnaught line was..a cold station by the exit door to the parking lot.
exit pipe n.
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1814 Repertory Arts, Manuf., & Agric. Mar. 200 The whole top cover..with or without the exit pipe..may be removed together, leaving the oil holder affixed.
1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 464/1 Their usual exit-pipe is no longer open.
1929 A. F. Sievers Peppermint & Spearmint as Farm Crops 19 The union of the exit pipe and condenser is also sealed with water.
2014 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 Jan. a14 An exit pipe about midway down distributes drinking water to the building.
exit road n.
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1831 J. Bouchette Topographical Dict. of Lower Canada at Yamaska A côte of 40 inhabitants..for 20 years..laboured in vain to obtain an exit road.
1921 Illustr. London News 28 May 734/1 Roehampton Lane..is a busy exit road for traffic leaving the west of London.
2010 J. McGregor Even Dogs (2011) ii. 19 We turn on to the exit road and see Danny climbing the steps back up to the street.
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exit charge n. = exit fee n.
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1901 Blue & Gold (Univ. Calif.) 28 p. xlviii The Choral Society will sell Peanuts in their fetching new gowns, which have not been paid for. An Exit Charge of 50 Cents will be collected by Ralph Fisher.
1967 Guardian 21 June 9/3 The two-dollar ‘exit charge’ which each tourist pays on leaving the islands adds considerably to the Government's funds.
1979 Financial Times 19 May 11/4 In America..some funds have added a ‘back-load’—an exit charge for investors cashing-in.
2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Money section) 15/1 An exit charge may be made when you sell units.
exit cue n. a cue for an actor to leave the stage; also figurative.
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1860 G. Vandenhoff Dramatic Reminisc. xiii. 200 If he perceived any eggs or harder missiles flying, not to wait, but to take the first shot for his exit-cue.
1879 Grip (Toronto) 19 Apr. 45/2 Excellency yawns; Hon. member takes it for exit cue.
1942 Pop. Photogr. Oct. 91/2 That gave me an exit cue, but before staggering out into the night I wanted to clear up one point that still puzzled me.
2013 Canberra Times (Nexis) 26 Oct. a3 I was supposed to come back on for the next scene to give an exit cue for another character.
exit exam n. U.S. an exam that students must pass to graduate from high school.
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1976 Washington Post 8 Apr. 46/2 Whether the board should demand passage of an ‘exit exam’ in basic subjects as a minimum requirement for graduation.
2012 N. N. Taleb Antifragile iv. xvi. 243 The newspaper published his name for having the highest grade on the Lebanese high school exit exam.
exit examination n. an examination taken at the end of a certain stage or level of education; now spec. (U.S.) = exit exam n.
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1865 Brit. Standard 2 June 178/1 The numbers who passed the exit examination were—In Edinburgh, 31; Glasgow, 11; [etc.].
1928 School Rev. 36 121 The primary school in New South Wales provides a course of instruction for pupils up to about twelve years of age. On passing an exit examination, the pupil may be enrolled in one of several types of schools.
1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 4 July a8 Students would be required to pass an ‘exit examination’ to obtain high school diplomas.
2005 Educ. Eval. & Policy Anal. 27 54/1 Whether students are less likely to acquire a high school diploma if they are required to pass a high school exit examination.
exit fee n. (a) a charge payable when leaving an event, establishment, etc.; (b) a fee or charge payable on the termination of an investment, contract, etc., esp. before an agreed period of time.
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1830 in Rep. Select Comm. Tolls & Customs Ireland (1834) 59 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 603) XVII. 229 It would be obviated by making it an exit fee, instead of an entrance fee?—I fear that an exit fee will always be attended with inconvenience.
1972 Times 26 Feb. 18/5 Offshore funds..enjoyed all the paraphernalia of high loadings, incentive fees and exit fees.
1988 D. French Working (1991) vi. 165 She figured that if the guy didn't pay Yolanda the exit fee, that was ten dollars more for her.
2006 Independent 7 Oct. (Save & Spend section) 2/1 The bank says its exit fee has doubled from 1 per cent to 2 per cent.
exit interview n. an interview held with an employee about to leave a company or organization, esp. in order to discuss the employee's reasons for leaving, their experience of working for the organization, etc.
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1927 Monthly Labor Rev. July Contents p. iii The ‘exit’ interview.
1943 Life 4 Jan. 50/2 From reports at the exit interviews and from girls interviewed at random, the fact emerges that behind the grievances is a dissatisfied state of mind.
1998 M. Gluck Superplonk 1999 174 ‘Exit interviews’ were to be given to all employees so as to determine the reasons for jacking it in.
exit line n. (a) Railways a line by which a train can exit the main railway network; (b) a line spoken by an actor immediately before leaving the stage; (c) a parting remark.
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1875 Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 41 25 Having cleared the main line, the engine will come to a stand, be uncoupled, shunted, and depart through the exit line R to the works for another load.
1893 Town Topics 2 Mar. 16/1 Fancy a Viola whose final speech..reminds me of the exit-lines of The Ghost in ‘Hamlet’.
1919 A. Platt Pract. Hints Playwriting viii. 108 An exit line should be so written that it can be spoken at the door.
1933 F. Baldwin Innocent Bystander xvi. 306 That's always a good exit line.
1986 G. Biddle Great Railway Stations Brit. vi. 76 The frontage block on the arrival side was an area where engines could draw forward and stand after being released from their trains, reached by a sector plate from which they could also gain an exit line.
2003 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 23 Nov. xiii. 7/2 Come up with exit lines to give the relatives you don't want to be cornered by.
exit permit n. an official document authorizing departure from a place, esp. of a person from a country or (chiefly historical) a ship from a port.
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1832 Amer. Railroad Jrnl. 27 Oct. 696/2 An American ship, whose..exit permit..was withheld for several days.
1918 Telegram in C. K. Cumming & W. W. Pettit Russian-Amer. Relations: Docs. & Papers (1920) 108 German commission headed by Baltic Baron Fredericks issuing exit permits which difficult procure.
1955 G. Greene Quiet Amer. i. i. 9 The police..could..refuse me an exit permit.
1982 A. C. Scott Actors are Madmen iv. 147 We had been granted exit permits following instructions..to proceed on our delayed leave.
2004 E. Van Rheenen Living Abroad in Costa Rica 111 Animals leaving Costa Rica require exit permits.
2009 Tan Ta Sen Cheng Ho & Islam in Southeast Asia iv. 83 The Office of the Commissioner of Foreign Trade..provided management and services for the outgoing and incoming cargo ships such as the issuing of exit permits for Chinese cargo ships.
exit poll n. Politics (originally U.S.) a poll asking individually how people leaving a polling station have voted, used in predicting the result of an election.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > unofficial poll of voters leaving station
exit poll1976
1976 N.Y. Times 13 June 29/7 The exit polls made more information available than ABC..chose to handle on primary nights.
1987 Oxf. Diocesan Mag. Aug. 10/1 The polls remained..stable (except for that curiously errant ‘exit poll’ put out by the bbc which accepted the possibility of a hung parliament).
2010 C. Seife Proofiness iii. 97 Exit polls allow the networks to declare a winner before bedtime.
exit polling n. Politics (originally U.S.) the action of takinɡ an exit poll.
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1979 Television/Radio Age 24 Sept. 72/3 This type of ‘exit’ polling will start in New Hampshire on February 26. the first of the 36 presidential primaries in 1980.
1980 Newsweek 24 Mar. 90/2 More news organizations are switching to ‘exit polling’, designed to learn how and why citizens voted by interviewing them as they leave the booth.
2012 R. Wuthnow Red State Relig. iii. 122 Impressionistic exit polling..suggested that women..favored the Democratic slate.
exit pupil n. the image of the aperture stop formed by rays of light after they have passed through an optical system, spec. the bright disk visible through the eyepiece when an optical instrument (such as a camera, telescope, gunsight, etc.) is directed towards a light source; the diameter of this image.Cf. entrance pupil n. at entrance n. Compounds 2.
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1898 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 470 Entrance-pupils and exit-pupils of the Microscope must be on the same points of junction.
1945 Pop. Mech. Dec. 99/1 The preliminary calculation should determine the exit pupil and luminosity.
1977 Backpacker Aug. 48/1 The exit pupil is important in determining the quality of a binocular. It should be perfectly round.
2002 Pop. Photogr. Apr. 18/1 The viewfinder is a typical point-and-shoot real-image finder.., and, with its small exit pupil, it has that annoying tendency to blank out if you don't keep your eye exactly centered.
exit speech n. (a) a speech made by an actor immediately before leaving the stage; (b) a parting speech.
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1775 in H. Jones & P. Hiffernan Heroine of Cave Pref. sig. A2 All the underground part, except..the slave Clermont's exit speech in act third, are Mr. Jones's.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. i. 13 With this exit speech..Wiry Ben shouldered his basket and left the workshop.
1945 Billboard 19 May 31/2 Walked off to a great hand after a fine exit speech.
2002 P. Augar & J. Palmer Rise Player Manager xi. 235 I just sat and listened. Before I had even really begun to load what it meant my boss launched into the exit speech.
exit strategy n. originally U.S. a plan for withdrawal, esp. from a military operation or business venture.
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society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [noun] > strategy > specific
forward defence1960
mutual assured destruction1968
MAD1969
mutually assured destruction1969
exit strategy1973
dual key1979
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S.D.I.1984
1973 Odessa (Texas) Amer. 26 Aug. 5 d/8 Phase IV controls on oil and gas are ‘intended as an exit strategy from the whole wretched, frustrating business over the free interchange of goods and services’.
1975 R. A. Falk Global Approach to National Policy ix. 146 Prowar sentiment had virtually vanished from the American scene, and the political debate was confined to disagreement over exit strategies.
2002 Computer Weekly 3 Oct. 28/3 Draw up a good contract and, perhaps most importantly, ensure there is a clear exit strategy.
exit visa n. a visa authorizing a person to leave a country.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > authorization to travel to, from, or in a country > [noun] > document > type of or substitute for
tezkere1612
dastak1748
yellow card1892
triptyque1908
exit visa1911
travel document1921
Nansen passport1925
tourist card1971
Nansen1975
1911 Club Jrnl. 7 Jan. 763/2 Not infrequently the customs officer fails to mark the temporary exit visa.
1949 H. Read Gauguin 1848–1903 3/1 A world..where currency restrictions and exit visas effectively deprive us of even Gauguin's illusion of liberty.
2012 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 17 Oct. e2/1 An end to the hated exit visa had been promised since last year... Cubans will no longer have to apply for the costly..‘white card’.
exit wound n. a wound made by a bullet or other missile passing out of the body.Cf. entrance wound n. at entrance n. Compounds 2.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > gunshot wound
shot1599
pistolade1604
canal1795
exit wound1833
entrance wound1852
entry wound1885
pink1885
1833 London Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 4 605/1 The exit wound to be frequently dressed simply; quietude and abstinence to be persisted in.
1901 G. H. Makins Surg. Experiences S. Afr. iii. 59 The general tendency of the margins, and even the area surrounding the exit wound itself, to be somewhat prominent.
2012 Wall St. Jrnl. 26 May a10/2 Sgt. Kaiser pressed his knuckle into the exit wound to stop the bleeding.
Derivatives
ˈexitless adj. without an exit.
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1888 Cambr. Rev. 26 Apr. 279/2 Shall we always go round and round in our exitless circuit of the little-go and the tripes?
1914 Geogr. Jrnl. 44 572 The plateau section has a comparatively large number of exitless lakes and ponds.
2013 T. Pynchon Bleeding Edge xli. 463 Maxine falls into an exitless loop, the dream as she surfaces turning into a spreadsheet she can't follow.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
exitv.1
/ˈɛksɪt/, /ˈɛɡzɪt/, U.S. /ˈɛɡzət/, /ˈɛksət/ intransitive. Used as a stage direction to indicate that an actor leaves the stage. Also in figurative contexts. In the 16th cent. exeat v. was also used. Cf. also earlier exeunt v.
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?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature ii. sig. Cij Awaye now wyll I rounde. Exit.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iii. 237 Sixe yeares we banish him and he shall go. Exit.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 58 (stage direct.) Exit pursued by a Beare. View more context for this quotation
a1652 R. Brome Love-sick Court iii. i. 121 in Five New Playes (1659) And kill'd the Patient was but sick before. Exit.
1749 T. Smollett Regicide iv. vi. 59 I hope to see thee bloom With vernal Freshness, and again unfold Thy Beauties to the Sun! [Exit Dunbar].
1788 E. Inchbald Such Things Are v. i. 61 She bows obediently, and exit.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria II. 282 So exit Clotilda, and enter Bertram.
1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iv. v. 205 Come! a bon mot, or a calembourg, or exit Mr. Vivian Grey.
c1874 J. J. Wallace Little Ruby ii. 21 I must not be seen by them. [Exit into arbor, l 2 e.
1923 W. Stevens Harmonium 58 Exit the mental moonlight, exit lex, Rex and principium, exit the whole Shebang.
1979 M. Leigh Abigail's Party ii, in Abigail's Party & Goose-pimples (1983) 52 I won't be a sec, I'm just going to the toilet, all right? [Exit Beverly.]
2014 D. McAndrew August Bank Holiday Lark iii. v. 94 Exit Mary briefly. Frank alone. Silence.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
exitv.2
/ˈɛksɪt/, /ˈɛɡzɪt/, U.S. /ˈɛɡzət/, /ˈɛksət/ 1.
a. intransitive. To make one's exit from a stage or other place or situation; to leave, depart, disappear.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > written or printed text > [verb (intransitive)] > stage directions
exeantc1485
exeuntc1485
exeata1556
re-enterc1590
exit1607
1607 W. N. Barley-breake sig. B1v Much like vnto a Player on a stage..As one distract doth exit in a rage.
1673 J. Ogilby Æsop's Fables Second Part 18 in Second Coll Fables This said, he Exits, huffing with a Curse, Whilst to make ready hobbles Granny Nurse.
1753 Universal Mag. Jan. 26/2 The pantaloon, packing up his cloaths, seems to have forgot something, and exits for it.
1788 E. Inchbald Such Things Are v. iii. 66 He makes a sign for the Guards to retire, and they exit.
1842 W. H. Maxwell Fort. O'Halloran vii, in Brother Jonathan 11 June 179/1 After this flattering admonition, she exited from the chamber, stiff, as a ramrod.
1877 tr. A. Vanloo & E. Leterrier La Marjolaine ii. vi. 37/1 (stage-direct.) (They drag him away. Aside, while exiting.) Great heavens! great heavens!
1890 Temple Bar Aug. 579 I desire to exit with the fiddlers playing, the foot-lights ablaze, the house looking on.
1937 C. Odets Golden Boy ii. iii. 179 (stage-direct.) He exits... Tokio moves up to Joe and begins to remove a glove.
1975 J. Rosenthal Evacuees in Bar Mitzvah Boy & Other Television Plays (1987) 112 (stage direct.) She grabs the letter from him, and starts scanning through its pages, as she exits to the kitchen.
1987 T. Wolfe Bonfire of Vanities iv. 82 Bear to your right up there. You exit to the right!
2005 B. Pilton Valley xvi. 146 Dog and master would then excuse themselves and exit into the gardens.
b. intransitive. figurative and in figurative contexts; spec. (literary) to die, to depart from life.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
a1652 R. Brome Love-sick Court ii. i. 116 in Five New Playes (1659) My souls better part exited, left The other languishing.
1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London I. viii. 201 [She would become] duchess of Delaware, if old Pomposo would exit.
1845 W. H. Maxwell Life Duke of Wellington (ed. 5) I. vi. 108 It was fortunate for the King of the World that he exited from the stage of life so honourably.
1927 Harper's Mag. Oct. 596/1 The ideas that made up the after-Magellan world-outlook had exited quietly as theories demonstrable to scientists for nearly two thousand years.
1945 Billboard 22 Dec. 12/2 Fast as web shows exited from Chi, new ones..arose to take their places.
1964 M. S. Day Hist. Eng. Lit. 1837–Present Day i. ii. 42 Guido exited from life with a decent show of noble piety.
1994 K. ya Salaam What is Life? 98 This urge can only be fulfilled by death, by exiting from this world.
c. intransitive. Cards (esp. Bridge). To relinquish the lead deliberately; to use an exit (exit n. 8).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > play bridge [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics
echo1885
peter1887
declare1895
false-card1902
finesse1902
to go over1902
to go down1905
switch1906
pass1908
exit1930
break1952
shoot1957
1930 [see exiting n. at Derivatives].
1938 Games Digest Oct. 38/1 West won the spade and exited with another club.
1953 Times 11 Nov. 4/7 East won with the ace of clubs, exited with the three of spades, and sat back waiting to make a diamond.
1983 T. Reese & D. Bird Bridge (1985) xviii. 191 He then exits with a low heart, thus rectifying the count.
2004 Bridge Mag. Mar. 29/1 You can draw trumps and strip off the red suits, then try to exit to West with the third heart to force him to give you a ruff and discard.
2. Originally U.S.
a. transitive. To go or come out of (a place); to depart from, leave (a place or situation). Also figurative and in figurative contexts.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away from [verb (transitive)]
leaveeOE
beleavea1250
devoidc1325
voidc1330
roomc1400
wagc1400
departa1425
refusea1425
avoid1447
ishc1450
remove1459
absent1488
part1496
refrain1534
to turn the backc1540
quita1568
apart1574
shrink1594
to fall from ——1600
to draw away1616
to go off ——a1630
shifta1642
untenant1795
evacuate1809
exit1830
stash1888
split1956
1830 Original 30 June 277/1 Many were the farmer's daughters who were seen to enter the shop.., and to exit the same shop with neat little paper parcels.
1894 Jrnl. Inst. Actuaries 31 246 Those minor agreements and reconciliations of the numbers entering and exiting the observations that are essential to correctness.
1951 Billboard 24 Feb. 12/2 Cugat is reportedly exiting the Pemora set-up.
1957 Chicago Tribune 4 May i. 12/1 The U.N. general counsel, Abraham H. Feller,..exited life thru a 12th floor window.
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone v. 115 At the first Union 76 sign he saw, he exited the freeway.
1979 D. R. Hofstadter Gödel, Escher, Bach (1980) i. 37 Person A may think he understands the problem, and try to remedy it by exiting the present system.
1983 I. Whitcomb Rock Odyssey iv. 188 After exiting the stage (to loud applause, I might add), I was tackled by a man with an ‘Abe Lincoln’ face and beard.
1985 M. Truman Murder at FBI xi. 80 The .22 shell never exited his body.
2000 CGU plc Ann. Rev. 1999 3/2 We are exiting markets where we lack scale.
2002 C. Hiaasen Basket Case xx. 191 Billie had exited this mortal realm at the same age..and in the same manner as Nelson Rockefeller.
2014 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 23 Feb. (Herald-Times ed.) b5/5 Smith and Keselowski raced side-by-side... They were door-to-door exiting the final turn.
b. transitive. To alight from, get out of (a vehicle, etc.).
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1971 Black Belt Nov. 34 Victim..exited his vehicle and was walking toward elevator in the center of garage.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 29 May 10/2 Once having dispensed with her clothes at the pool at dawn, our titian-haired employee began exiting her clothes at later hours.
2013 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 23 Oct. a3/5 Ugbeka refused to exit the SUV. The officers used a ‘window punch’ tool to break a window and remove Ugbeka from the vehicle.
3. transitive. Computing. To terminate (a program, a subroutine, etc.). Also intransitive.
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1966 Struct. Syst. & Program Decisions (U.S. National Aeronaut. & Space Admin., Apollo Program Office) II. iv. 67 If all are satisfied, calculate design parameters and total weight and exit the program.
1971 W. W. Black Introd. On-line Computers 110 The ability to return to the appropriate place in the main program after exiting from the subroutine.
1980 Infoworld 7 July 12/4 Most modules allow the user to exit by returning to either the calling menu module or to Basic.
1996 PC Mag. July 82 (advt.) Exit again to reload your multi-media application.
2014 J. E. Brady Burning Bridges xvii. 75 Maria Albright closed the spreadsheet she was working on and exited from the Excel program.
Derivatives
ˈexiting n.
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1772 London Mag. Dec. 563/1 The rest of them were employed in entering, exiting, bowing, curtesying, and all that minute trifling which is so fashionable upon the theatre of France.
1913 Amer. Jrnl. Gastro-enterol. July 4/2 I have had over a hundred cases showing from six to seventeen hour delays of exit of bismuth from the stomach in which there was no delay of exiting of foods.
1930 F. England & J. H. Reford Play of Cards 143 Exiting consists in getting rid of the lead at a critical stage of the play, either by throwing a winning card or by making master cards early so as to avoid being forced into the lead with them later in the play.
1989 PC World Oct. 144/1 The mail merge..requires exiting to another utility.
2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 14 Sept. a14/1 People using public restrooms in Chicago and San Francisco were the most frequent hand-washers..with 89 percent of adults washing before exiting.
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