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✅ To give permission 📄 A leave permit
exeat

exeat

9.9
Formal permission to leave a country or school for a time
  • noun
  • /ˈɛksɪˌæt/
  • Archaic
translation icon : permiso de salida
  • She received an exeat to visit her family.
  • ne exeat

Examples

  • The school granted him an exeat for the weekend.

  • The student received an exeat from the school, allowing him to travel home for the weekend.

  • The judge granted an exeat so the witness could travel abroad for urgent family matters.

  • Without an exeat, the applicant was not allowed to leave the country.

  • Her lawyer applied for an exeat to enable her to seek medical treatment overseas.

  • Before leaving the country, she made sure to obtain an exeat from the embassy.

  • To attend the family wedding, he requested an exeat from his boarding school.

Synonyms

leave
vsexeat
  • Formal
443 3.8

Official permission to be absent from work or duty

focuses on permission or documents allowing exit from a place rather than just time away
leave of absence
vsexeat
  • Formal
38 3.9

A period when someone is officially allowed to be away from work or school

focuses on permission or documents allowing exit from a place not only absence time
outpass
vsexeat
  • Indian
8.2

A written pass that lets someone leave a place for a short time

is broader, also covering permission or documents to leave larger places such as countries

Antonyms

denial
61 2.8

Refusing a request or saying something is not true

prohibition
  • Formal
48 4.4

An official rule that stops people from doing something

Surface Forms

exeat singular
exeats plural

Etymology

Exeat comes from the Latin parts ex- ('out') and ire ('to go'), and is like the everyday word exit. It originally meant 'let someone go out', so today an exeat is the official permission or paper that lets a person leave a place.