leave office

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leave office - give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"

step down, quit, resign

resign, vacate, renounce, give up - leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily; "She vacated the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds"

retire - go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position; "He retired at age 68"

top out - give up one's career just as one becomes very successful; "The financial consultant topped out at age 40 because he was burned out"

pull up stakes, depart, leave - remove oneself from an association with or participation in; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes"

fall - lose office or power; "The government fell overnight"; "The Qing Dynasty fell with Sun Yat-sen"

take office - assume an office, duty, or title; "When will the new President take office?"

References in periodicals archive ?

(TAP) - Prime Minister Theresa May does not need to spell out a timetable for her departure, prisons minister Robert Buckland said on Sunday, adding the leader had already announced she would leave office after the first phase of Brexit.

PM May has already set out timetable for her departure - says UK minister

The Classified National Security Information Protection Act was amended to close a loophole that lawmakers said allowed local government heads, in particular, to travel abroad without requiring permission, after they leave office.

Taiwan to extend travel restrictions on officials handling classified data

He also suspended those employees who used to leave office before their duty hours and initiated an inquiry against assistant director of the regional office, a press release said.

Afridi visits passport office, suspends absent staffers

Baringo governor Stanley Kiptis has said that he will leave office if he fails to deliver on his promises.

I will quit if I fail to deliver - Baringo governor declares

'This revised budget being signed today September 14, 2018, Fayemi did sign the same kind of budget on September 15, 2014, when he had less than a month to leave office. Maybe he has forgotten, but Ekiti people are not suffering from dementia and are students of history.

Fayose signs 2018 supplementary budget

John McCain's seat off the November ballot should the ailing senator leave office soon failed in the Arizona Senate on Monday.

Emergency clause to change rule to replace McCain fails in Senate

Abdul Karim Khadam's refusal to leave office has come as a blow to the Ghani administration.

Another Afghan governor rejects President Ghani's replacement order

The current law on presidential security states that presidents and their spouses can receive security service and protection for 10 years after they leave office. They can request an additional five years if they need to do so due to their age and other reasons.

Security service for ex-presidents, their spouses to be extended

British gamblers believe US President Donald Trump is now more likely to leave office before the end of his first term than not, British bookmakers said on Wednesday, after a week of tumult at the White House.

UK punters back an early exit for Trump

Piercy will leave office when her successor, Lucy Vinis, is sworn-in before delivering her first State of the City address on Jan.

Hult hosting sendoff for Kitty Piercy

Martelly, who heads Haiti's government, is due to leave office on Sunday but has no elected successor after a Jan.