verb (quitting, quit, quit) (BrE also quitting, quitted, quitted)
1 ~ (as sth) (informal) to leave your job, school, etc:
[V] If I don't get more money I'll quit. * He has decided to quit as manager of the team. * [VN] He quit the show last year because of bad health.
2 (informal, especially AmE) to stop doing sth:
[VN-ing] I've quit smoking. * [VN] Just quit it! * [V] We only just started. We're not going to quit now.
3 to leave the place where you live:
[VN] We decided it was time to quit the city. * [V] The landlord gave them all notice to quit.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for quit is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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