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gave notice

gave notice is the simple past of give notice.

Meaning of give notice

Verb

give notice (third-person singular simple present gives notice, present participle giving notice, simple past gave notice, past participle given notice)

  1. (idiomatic) To announce one's intent to leave a job; to inform an employer that one is leaving.
    • He gave notice yesterday that he'll leave in two weeks.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see give, notice.
    • Having got its Act, the M.B.M. & M.J.R. apparently had misgivings about the route, in view of the very heavy engineering works that would be necessary, and on November 9, 1846, the company gave notice of a further bill for a deviated line, which was passed into law on July 22, 1847.1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 149

Questions about gave notice

What is gave notice the simple past of?
Gave notice is the simple past of give notice.

Words near gave notice in the dictionary

  1. gave life to
  2. gave lip
  3. gave me
  4. gave name to
  5. gave neck
  6. gave notice
  7. gave of oneself
  8. gave off
  9. gave one a yell
  10. gave one enough rope
  11. gave one the lie in one's throat

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