transcription, транскрипция: [ kwɪt ]
( quits, quitting)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
Note: The form 'quit' is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle.
1.
If you quit your job, you choose to leave it. ( INFORMAL )
He quit his job as an office boy in Athens...
He figured he would quit before Johnson fired him.
VERB : V n , V
2.
If you quit an activity or quit doing something, you stop doing it. ( mainly AM )
A nicotine spray can help smokers quit the habit without putting on weight...
I was trying to quit smoking at the time.
= give up
VERB : V n / -ing , V n / -ing
3.
If you quit a place, you leave it completely and do not go back to it.
...the idea that humans might one day quit the earth to colonise other planets...
VERB : V n
4.
If you say that you are going to call it quits , you mean that you have decided to stop doing something or being involved in something.
They raised $630,000 through listener donations, and then called it quits...
PHRASE : V inflects