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Definition of Departure

Departure

  1. Division; separation; putting away.
  2. Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.
  3. Removal from the present life; death; decease.
  4. Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.
  5. The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
  6. The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.

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

The only certain freedom's in departure.
Robert Frost

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

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

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