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leavetaking

leavetaking is the alternative spelling of leave-taking.

Meaning of leave-taking

Noun

leave-taking (countable and uncountable, plural leave-takings)

  1. The process of saying goodbye.
    • The diplomat's formal leave-taking took up most of the day.
  2. The act or process of taking leave (time away from work)
    • As a mother and a middle manager, Sasha had given a lot of thought to the issue of leave-taking.1998, Mindy Fried, Taking Time: Parental Leave Policy and Corporate Culture, page 53

Forms of leavetaking

pluralleavetakings

Questions about leavetaking

What is leavetaking the alternative spelling of?
Leavetaking is the alternative spelling of leave-taking.

Words near leavetaking in the dictionary

  1. leaves to the imagination
  2. leaves well alone
  3. Leavesden
  4. leavesful
  5. leavest
  6. leavetaking
  7. leavetakings
  8. leaveth
  9. leavetime
  10. leavin'
  11. leaviness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leavetaking (page history and authors); leave-taking (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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