verb
remove oneself from an association with or participation in
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She wants to leave
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The teenager left home
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She left her position with the Red Cross
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He left the Senate after two terms
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after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes
• Hypernyms: ↑change
• Hyponyms: ↑leave office, ↑quit, ↑step down, ↑resign, ↑drop out
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s
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Somebody ——s something
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phrasalsee pull stakes
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pull up stakes
To prepare to leave a place
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Main Entry: ↑pull
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move or go to live elsewhere
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pull up stakes
US informal : to leave your job or home
Her career was going nowhere, so she decided it was time to pull up stakes.
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Main Entry: ↑stake
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ˌpull up ˈstakes idiom
Useful english dictionary. 2012.