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exeat

exeat noun: a license or permit for absence from a university or a religious house (such as a monastery).

Noun

exeat (plural exeats)

  1. A license or permit for absence from a university or a religious house (such as a monastery).
  2. A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.
  3. (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, UK, dated) Leave of absence from a public school or college.
    • [I]t was impossible to imagine her doing anything except eating ice-cream and smoking, like a child on an exeat from school.1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 66
  4. (obsolete) A stage direction to leave the stage.

Forms of exeat

pluralexeats

Origin of exeat

Borrowed from Latin exeat, third-person singular subjunctive of exeō (“depart”) used as an impersonal imperative, literally “let him go forth”.

Questions about exeat

What does exeat mean?
Exeat means a license or permit for absence from a university or a religious house (such as a monastery).
What part of speech is exeat?
Exeat is a noun.
What is the plural of exeat?
The plural of exeat is exeats.

Words near exeat in the dictionary

  1. EXDIS
  2. exduction
  3. exductions
  4. exe
  5. exe.
  6. exeat
  7. exeats
  8. exec
  9. exec-produce
  10. exec-produced
  11. exec-produces

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