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Answer for the clue "Quick departure ", 7 letters:
getaway

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Pertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans. n. 1 A means of escape. 2 The effecting of an escape. 3 A vacation or holiday or the destination for one.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration; "his car has a lot of pickup" [syn: pickup ] a rapid escape (as by criminals); "the thieves made a clean getaway"; "after the expose he had to take it on the lam" [syn: lam ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Getaway is Australia's longest-running travel and lifestyle television program. Debuting on 14 May 1992, it is broadcast on the Nine Network and TLC . Its main competitor was The Great Outdoors on the Seven Network until 2009. It is hosted by Catriona Rowntree ...

Usage examples of getaway.

He came to Auer and executed a neat, military right-face, hoping to make his getaway before the guy in the pickup realized he was gone.

Though he was willing to bluff it out as Cruke, the big-shot certainly intended to be ready for a prompt getaway, if needed.

He still had a chance to reach the hotel side exit before Snaper and Hooley came rushing out to make their getaway.

Harlem sunsets, a jorum of skee, a chippie with boss getaway sticks, giving a canary the Broderick.

Switters since his digestive tract found arrack as combustible as pisco and since sobriety could be a useful ally in a hasty getaway.

Blades spirited their ward away, they left Rodden to cover their getaway, although he was by far the youngest.

Instead of loading their haul into cars and attempting a getaway on one of the expressway lanes, instead of leaving the tunnel and making it across the countryside to another road, he had come up with a smarter idea.

She sent the company captain ahead with two scouts and instructed the rest of the company to follow twenty paces behind, but she could not quite make her getaway before Merula the Marvelous came puffing up from behind.

The fact that he was making a quick getaway was evident when Spooner glanced toward the arrow indicator in the dial above the closed doors of the elevator shaft.

Brand was too anxious to cloak his own getaway to pay much attention to the car in which Spooner sat huddled low behind the wheel.

With a bit of luck and sufficient smoke to obscure their getaway, they might get the White Nun out of the stook before it caught fire and run with her towards this cave.

They had chosen the switcher for their getaway, but why they had burdened themselves with the whale car was a mystery, unless it had happened by coupling the thing accidentally.

Knowing that Trame was staging a getaway, The Shadow was coming back to halt it.

My caseworker broke down and cried when I told her that the girl on the roof made a getaway.

Is Flimflam, he asked a moment later, why we made such a precipitous dawn getaway?