time of departure
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2.7
- noun
:
hora de salida
- Passengers are advised to arrive at least 30 minutes before the time of departure.
Examples
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BOUC: "All passengers must check in "at least one half hour prior to time of departure... "or their seat may be forfeit."
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These filings include the time of departure and arrival and the route to be taken.
Blog text (18) -
Estimated time of departure in four hours.
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Our time of departure will be 11 :36 tomorrow morning.
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Now, that time of departure, both for the outer trip from the Wheel to Mars and for the return from Mars to the Wheel, is most important.
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Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents; be in the field of biomedical or a closely related field; be enrolled or have received their most recent degree within the last three years; and have the language ability to carry out the proposed project in the host country at the time of departure.
Academic text (2016) -
They indicated, if I understood correctly, that we should just show up at the normal time of departure at 10:30 AM or 1:00 PM, and we would likely find a place.
Blog text (25) -
It seemed to me altogether better that I should pop into the next room while she composed a note outlining her intentions and estimated day and time of departure.
Fiction book (1994) -
Often there was near hysteria at the actual time of departure; limousines had not been ordered in advance, for example, or taxis could not be hailed on the New York City streets.
Fiction book (1998) -
The bus has a scheduled time of departure at 10:15 AM.
Synonyms
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1.0
The moment when you should leave a place
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1.8
A time a train, bus, or plane is planned to leave
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the scheduled time at which something leaves' is directly and transparently derivable from 'time' (a point/occasion) + the genitive/of relation + 'departure' (the act of leaving). This compounding follows a common noun + of + noun pattern found across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Time of departure comes from a simple picture: a clock at a station showing the exact time when a train or plane will depart. So it means the scheduled moment when a vehicle will 'leave' its starting place.