take leave

Verb

take leave (third-person singular simple present takes leave, present participle taking leave, simple past took leave, past participle taken leave)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, leave.
   • Romney had already taken leave from Bain Capital by the time the American Pad & Paper layoffs took place.2011 March, W James Antle III, “Front-runner Failure”, in American Spectator, volume 44, number 2, page 12
2. (often, with-of) To depart.
   • So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry.1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343
   • Rincon had taken leave of the king in early May1990 August, Linda Abbott with Marsha Frey, “Fatal diplomacy”, in History Today, volume 40, number 8, page 10