QUIT


Meaning of QUIT in English

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

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