DEPART


Meaning of DEPART in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪpɑ:(r)t ]

( departs, departing, departed)

1.

When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.

Our tour departs from Heathrow Airport on 31 March and returns 16 April...

In the morning Mr McDonald departed for Sydney...

The coach departs Potsdam in the morning.

VERB : V from n , V for n , V n

2.

If you depart from a traditional, accepted, or agreed way of doing something, you do it in a different or unexpected way.

Why is it in this country that we have departed from good educational sense?...

= deviate

VERB : V from n

3.

If someone departs from a job, they resign from it or leave it. In American English, you can say that someone departs a job.

Lipton is planning to depart from the company he founded.

...a number of staff departed during his reign as rector of the Royal College of Art...

He departed baseball in the ’60s.

VERB : V from n , V , V n

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