Definition of Departure

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Departure

Division; separation; putting away.

Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.

Removal from the present life; death; decease.

Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.

The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.

The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.

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Departure Quotations

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Winston Churchill

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
Pablo Picasso

The only certain freedom's in departure.
Robert Frost

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Walt Whitman

But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.
Jerry Garcia

Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.
Joe Biden

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand Russell

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
Jean Piaget

Departure Translations

departure in Afrikaans is vertrek
departure in Danish is afgang
departure in Dutch is uittocht, vertrek
departure in German is Start {f}, Abfahrt {f}, Abfahrt, Start, abreise
departure in Italian is dipartita, espatrio, partenza
departure in Latin is digressus, digressio, profectio, excessum
departure in Norwegian is avgang, avvik, avreise
departure in Portuguese is partida
departure in Spanish is partida

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