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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
departure
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a radical departure (=something very different)
▪ The design of the building is a radical departure from tradition.
departure lounge
departure lounge
▪ the departure lounge
departures board
the date of publication/issue/departure etcformal
▪ The insurance will only cover costs incurred on or after the date of departure.
the departure date (=the date when someone leaves)
▪ My departure date was only a few days away.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
abrupt
▪ His abrupt departure left her close to collapse.
▪ In view of the Duchess of York's abrupt departure from the royal family in March this year it was a prudent decision.
▪ David filled her dreams; the ecstasy of their lovemaking, and the pain and bewilderment of his abrupt departure.
▪ He also meets a leader who, after Mr Mandela's abrupt departure, can't help returning to the basic question.
▪ Chapter 31 Nora's abrupt departure had, at first, the desired effect upon John.
early
▪ Day 3 Early departure for the long run south to Datcha.
▪ At least one of the ships in Oakland seemed to be preparing for a possible early departure.
▪ This early departure, she thinks, explains the lack of attachment she has for home, for her Welshness.
▪ This was her earliest departure from a tournament this year.
▪ The human and political fallout from the earlier mass departure left Clinton in a no-win situation.
▪ I walked down the first fairway in a relaxed and peaceful mood, despite my early departure from my bed.
▪ Day 18 Delhi-London Transfer to the airport for your early morning departure to London Heathrow.
imminent
▪ They made love as though tomorrow was fast approaching, and with it imminent departure.
▪ His imminent departure was discovered and he was ignominiously sacked.
▪ The Chelonians, inspired by the signs of the F61's imminent departure, were struggling furiously to free themselves.
major
▪ A major departure from his original vision was the rejection of a seven year course - but other concepts were accepted.
new
▪ Not surprisingly, the indefatigable Paul-Henri Spaak was in the forefront of these arguments for new departures.
▪ The new departure was in part due to the constitutional evolution of federalism achieved during the New Deal.
▪ How far were such opportunities a new departure?
▪ It is paradoxical that so old an image should be seen to represent such a new and radical departure.
▪ The involvement of the Archive in a venture of this kind has represented a new departure in the dissemination of its holdings.
▪ None of this marks a new departure.
▪ It also marks a new departure.
▪ Nor is this an entirely new departure for Morrison.
radical
▪ But in fact the notional/functional approach has generally been represented as a radical departure, a complete break with the past.
▪ In a radical departure from Gov.
▪ It was a radical departure from the past, an interlude of democracy in an otherwise unbroken line of authoritarian rule.
▪ It is paradoxical that so old an image should be seen to represent such a new and radical departure.
▪ This would be a radical departure from the subsidy system that has dominated the agricultural economy for more than 50 years.
significant
▪ Are there any significant departures from the use of the simple past tense?
▪ However, there are a number of significant departures from the earlier document.
▪ By estimating the expected number of each chromosome and comparing it with the observed number, any significant departures can be recorded.
▪ A most significant departure for some one so senior to involve himself personally.
▪ Nevertheless, this was not the simple procedure by which the most significant departure from union was effected.
sudden
▪ Because of the colonel's sudden and unexplained departure from the regiment, fact was augmented by fiction.
▪ There was no official explanation for Mr Lane's sudden departure, which was announced in a terse two-line statement.
▪ Mr Kabila's sudden departure leaves huge uncertainty.
▪ She left, and it took her partner a year to build the forward momentum she had disrupted by her sudden departure.
▪ My dear Adam, Over the years, you will have heard many explanations for my sudden departure from the regiment.
▪ Julie Worden and Charlton Boyd meet in a skittish duet, marked by sudden departures, near misses and unexpected evasive leaps.
▪ After Jenny's sudden departure, Eloise had felt betrayed, abandoned and completely lonely.
▪ Eastman Kodak's shares plunged 10% following the sudden departure of its new chief financial officer.
■ NOUN
date
▪ Long delays in obtaining passports and visas often occur; be sure to apply well in advance of the anticipated departure date.
▪ The departure date is May 19.
▪ For example, a Heathrow to Seville Moneysaver return costs from £97 to £209 per person, depending on departure date.
▪ Early departure A guest who checks out before his/her scheduled departure date.
▪ You should contact your Travel Agent for further information nearer your departure date.
▪ As factors affecting this requirement are sometimes not known until departure date, we can not always notify you in advance.
▪ So far 52 have left the Company with firm departure dates set for a further 62.
▪ The departure date was fixed for 4 August, an ideal time to travel because of school holidays and our diaries.
lounge
▪ Moments before boarding I caught a glimpse of a television set in the departure lounge.
point
▪ Just check the code for your selected departure point against the panel below to find the departure and return Time Band applicable.
▪ Travel from your chosen departure point at a time that suits you.
▪ You can choose your departure point from our massive range of flights and airports on page 10-13 of the main brochure.
▪ A number of independent coach companies offer a range of departure points and times throughout the London area.
▪ Commercial and cargo flights would be allowed as long as they were inspected at their departure points.
▪ Our reservations staff will be pleased to quote alternative departure times, departure points and routes on request.
points
▪ A number of independent coach companies offer a range of departure points and times throughout the London area.
▪ Commercial and cargo flights would be allowed as long as they were inspected at their departure points.
▪ Our reservations staff will be pleased to quote alternative departure times, departure points and routes on request.
time
▪ Carol, I want you to write down some departure times.
▪ To learn the departure time of a train, one had to pay 10 kopecks and consult a public information booth.
▪ Their departure time, though, varies throughout the summer.
▪ However, on a bad day chaos reigns, and nobody can predict a likely departure time.
▪ But what was different about this flight was that the departure time was 8: 30&038;.
▪ Should anyone arrive less than 45 minutes before the ticketed departure time admission to the flight is likely to be refused.
■ VERB
announce
▪ When a Hmong dies, his fellow clansmen beat out a dirge on ceremonial drums, announcing his departure for the afterworld.
delay
▪ In the first place he had been in to his office and delayed their departure until after lunch.
▪ The other night, I delayed my departure by 15 minutes.
▪ In the case of a major delay on your homeward journey, we shall endeavour to delay your departure from your hotel.
▪ It will only delay my departure and do no good.
▪ Sam, without any hesitation had agreed knowing that to wait for the first available fireman would delay his train's departure.
▪ I got sick, as I so often had at times of unbearable tension, which delayed our departure for a month.
▪ It would mean delaying her own departure, when she wanted the break to be swift and clean.
▪ Telling him would mean more questions and delay her departure.
follow
▪ In the four months following the emperor's departure, Charles's military moves are unknown.
▪ The Spurs chief is determined to beef up his midfield following the departures of Stewart and Paul Gascoigne.
▪ But arrivals follow departures and the new appears very promising - even if you have to wait a little time for it.
▪ Richard Tonks and John Brockbank are now the only directors at Feethams following his departure.
▪ Eastman Kodak's shares plunged 10% following the sudden departure of its new chief financial officer.
▪ In the silence that followed their departure the muffled movements of the other occupants of the house became surprisingly audible.
▪ Forget talk about possible moves to Tottenham, following Terry Venables' departure.
lead
▪ If he regretted the outbursts which had led to Jonna's departure, Jonadab showed no sign.
▪ This has led to a departure from the generally accepted principle of state funding for educational projects.
mark
▪ This marks a departure for LaudaAir.
▪ Julie Worden and Charlton Boyd meet in a skittish duet, marked by sudden departures, near misses and unexpected evasive leaps.
▪ It also marks a new departure.
▪ None of this marks a new departure.
▪ She listened for the siren that marked their departure, the roar of the engines that meant their journey had truly begun.
▪ This humanistic attention to the subjective interpretation by prisoners of their situation marks a distinct departure from the orthodox account.
represent
▪ This represents a fundamental departure from the traditional understanding of what democracy is, or was.
▪ In fact, it represents a real departure for the studio.
▪ The involvement of the Archive in a venture of this kind has represented a new departure in the dissemination of its holdings.
▪ But in fact the notional/functional approach has generally been represented as a radical departure, a complete break with the past.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
point of departure
▪ In each case the point of departure is a surface-syntax input.
▪ Irigaray has offered some clues, but she takes the extreme of the feminine position as her point of departure.
▪ Still, the police continued their efforts independently, distributing her picture to all points of departure from the country.
▪ The answer: only a point of departure.
▪ The boat would then sail in a circle, dragging the net, until it returned to the point of departure.
▪ The problem is an acute one in the case of Britain, given the absence of any clear point of departure.
▪ The themes themselves dictate what is studied; they provide points of departure for the curriculum.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ There are several departures for Minneapolis every day.
▪ You should be at the airport an hour before departure.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any departure from the standard must be justified by the individual circumstances.
▪ One of the key things for the male is to time his departure from the first female correctly.
▪ The departure of Richard Wilcock and his staff was equally regrettable.
▪ The rate of departure was probably even more brutal among those at home with a remote control in their hands.
▪ The upshot of it was: his due pension, and his departure to live with a faraway niece.
▪ With the departure of Reich, the president loses an important voice.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Departure

Departure \De*par"ture\ (?; 135), n. [From Depart.]

  1. Division; separation; putting away. [Obs.]

    No other remedy . . . but absolute departure.
    --Milton.

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

    Departure from this happy place.
    --Milton.

  3. Removal from the present life; death; decease.

    The time of my departure is at hand.
    --2 Tim. iv. 6.

    His timely departure . . . barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.
    --Sir P. Sidney.

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

    Any departure from a national standard.
    --Prescott.

  5. (Law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
    --Bouvier.

  6. (Nav. & Surv.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.

    Note: Since the meridians sensibly converge, the departure in navigation is not measured from the beginning nor from the end of the ship's course, but is regarded as the total easting or westing made by the ship or person as he travels over the course.

    To take a departure (Nav. & Surv.), to ascertain, usually by taking bearings from a landmark, the position of a vessel at the beginning of a voyage as a point from which to begin her dead reckoning; as, the ship took her departure from Sandy Hook.

    Syn: Death; demise; release. See Death.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
departure

mid-15c., from Old French deporteure "departure," figuratively, "death," from departir (see depart) + -ure (see -ure).

Wiktionary
departure

n. The act of departing or something that has departed.

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WordNet
departure

  1. n. act of departing [syn: going, going away, leaving]

  2. a variation that deviates from the standard or norm; "the deviation from the mean" [syn: deviation, divergence, difference]

  3. euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing" [syn: passing, loss, exit, expiration, going, release]

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Wikipedia
Departure (Journey album)

Departure is the sixth studio album by the American rock band Journey. It was released in March 1980 on the Columbia Records label.

Departure would be the band's highest charting album to date, giving Journey their first appearance in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album charts, peaking at No. 8. The album includes " Any Way You Want It", the lead off track and top 25 single.

The album featured an edgier sound, thanks partly to the "live in studio" way the songs were recorded. The band went into The Automatt studio with 19 tracks, eventually trimming down to 12.

Departure would mark the last full-time studio album appearance of founding member Gregg Rolie, and his penultimate recording with the band: his final contributions would appear on Dream, After Dream, a soundtrack album to the Japanese film of the same name, which would also be released in 1980. Rolie had become tired of life on the road and decided to leave the band after assisting in the selection of his replacement, Jonathan Cain, then of The Babys. Rolie sang lead vocals on only one song on Departure, the ballad "Someday Soon".

In 1986, Columbia reissued Departure on compact disc in the U.S. and Europe. They subsequently remastered the album in 1996. BMG/Columbia remastered Departure again in 2006 for European, Japanese and American listeners, adding bonus tracks 13 "Natural Thing" and 14 "Little Girl". Dave Donnelly at DNA Mastering in New York City led the 2006 project.

Departure

Departure or Departures may refer to:

Departure (Taio Cruz album)

Departure is the debut studio album by English R&B singer-songwriter Taio Cruz. It was released on 17 March 2008. The album entered the UK Albums Chart at number 17.

Departure (Jesse McCartney album)

Departure is the third studio album by American recording artist Jesse McCartney. It was released on May 20, 2008 through Hollywood Records. The album was re-released on April 7, 2009, under the name Departure: Recharged. The album featured a heavier R&B sound, and spawned three US Hot 100 top 40 hits, " Leavin'", " How Do You Sleep?", and " Body Language". The latter two were released as singles from the recharged edition.

Departure (1986 film)

Departure is a 1986 Australian film directed by Brian Kavanagh.

Departure (1931 film)

Departure'' (French:Partir'') is a 1931 French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Jean Marchat, Simone Cerdan and Ginette d'Yd. It was based on a novel by Roland Dorgelès. An opera singer travelling with her company on a passenger ship for a tour of French Indochina, encounters a mysterious young man who she falls in love with.

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Usage examples of "departure".

It was only natural that once everyone had had time to adjust to the tragic void created by his departure, they would turn to that one person who could so ably fill the gap, that one person whose standards of excellence were above reproach, that one person whom they could rely upon to continue the noble traditions of the fair-Irina Stoddard!

As he was an actressy little fellow, he put on a great show of lamentation for the neighbours, referring to the departure from his starving country as a white martyrdom.

On this admonition he took his departure, revolving in his mind various stratagems whereby the younger Miss Merriville could be excluded from the forthcoming visit to Grosvenor Place without opposition from her masterful sister.

Clem for something of this kind, yet he had managed things so well that up to the time of his departure she had not been able to remark a single suspicious circumstance, unless, indeed, it were the joyous affectionateness with which he continued to behave, She herself had been passing through a time of excitement and even of suffering.

April gambolled in like a lamb this year, and taking a cue from his sprightly kick-up-your-heels mood, the Spring season was all aflutter with the gay bustle of arrivals and departures.

Unfortunately, sleep had conquered her before your departure, and she only woke when the alarum struck, too late to detain you, for you had rushed with the haste of a man who is flying from some terrible danger.

The day before my departure, vexed at having lost my time and my amorous compliments, I made up my mind to steal that portrait--a slight compensation for not having won the original.

Thomas Ancred would say good-bye and leave her to savour the moment of departure.

One who was indebted to you, and to whom I was in turn indebted, with the result that I was tasked with arranging your departure from Aren, which I have now done, thus freeing me of further obligationswhich has proved timely, I might add.

He kept an eye on things while Justin was away, but his special interest was several hundred arpents of land given over to the cultivation of Sea Island cotton, a departure from the sugarcane that was the staple crop of the plantation.

Security of the naval and military forces is their bailiwick, the more so with the damage done to the KGB after the departure of our friend Andropov.

Admiral Beagle looked at Torve with considerable suspicion, but made no objection to his departure.

This last discovery pleased me greatly, because I saw that I should have no difficulty in taking my departure the next morning, and I began to enjoy the part I had to play.

The day after the wedding I began to make preparations for my departure.

Madame Dubois begged me to delay my departure and sup once more with her.