to leave the job
6
2.5
- phrasal verb
:
dejar el trabajo
- Nevertheless, the company was angry that I left the job.
And at that time, I had just left the job at Charleston, Maine.
- And at that time, I had just left the job at Charleston, Maine.
- So that means if you say I'm leaving the job, goodbye bonus.
- You're not in a position where you can leave the job in that particular situation.
- I would be better to leave the job if I couldn't sort of put those emotions to one side.
- So what is absolutely stunning is that those people are more likely to then leave the job because it feels, it feels so discordant.
- And then the minute you're forced to have to step back, leave the job, your best friend's dead.
- And she confronts her husband and she starts leaving an authentic and she leaves the job, by the way, which wasn't her, wasn't really expressing who she was.
- Yes, I am friends with ex screws and they left the job for certain reasons, but they're decent people and they could have been there the same as us, just a left turn or a right turn.
Examples
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He felt it was time to leave the job and find something more fulfilling.
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Well, I was thinking of leaving the job anyway.
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After that, you may leave the job if you wish.
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I ended up leaving the job, and after a year, I have been asked by him to come back.
Blog text (25) -
You're not in a position where you can leave the job in that particular situation.
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Gates, who turns 67 in September, says he wants to leave the job and retire, this time for good, sometime in 2011.
Academic text (2010) -
As a result of pressures on the service and workers, four in five (82%) admitted they had thought about leaving the job.
Academic text (2015) -
Speaker, my constituent Ken Wright was a proud RAF serviceman forced to leave the job he loved simply because he was gay.
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She thinks she left the job because they were stuck in a salary negotiation, and on some level she feels that he didn't stand up for her.
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After much consideration, she decided to leave the job to pursue her dream of traveling.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To go away from a place, person, or group
788
1.2
To leave a job or position
533
3.7
Leave a job or office by giving notice
176
1.3
To leave a place to start a journey
148
3.3
Give up an important job so someone else can take over
52
4.5
Leave a place or job so it is free for someone else
20
4.9
To stop doing a job or role politely
Antonyms
How Final
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to resign or quit one's employment' is directly and compositionally derived from 'leave' (to depart) combined with 'the job' (the employment position). This verb + object pattern is a standard, cross-linguistic way to express quitting work, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
The phrase leave the job comes from the simple image of someone walking out of their workplace with a box of their things. Because leave means to go away and job means the place or work you do, the phrase came to mean 'to resign' or 'quit' an employer.