[ UK /dɪpˈɑːt/ ]
[ US /dɪˈpɑɹt/ ]
VERB
  1. wander from a direct or straight course
  2. go away or leave
  3. be at variance with; be out of line with
  4. remove oneself from an association with or participation in
    She left her position with the Red Cross
    after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes
    She wants to leave
    He left the Senate after two terms
    The teenager left home
  5. move away from a place into another direction
    Go away before I start to cry
    The train departs at noon
  6. leave
    The family took off for Florida
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How To Use depart In A Sentence

  • Mr Smith said the department's own funds, which have bankrolled major improvements in the naval service, had been well tapped and it was now time to explore new ways of funding.
  • McCarthy remains dismissive of the allegations and defensive of the former sergeant, saying he was "brutalized" by his colleagues, in particular, by a few senior officers "exerting locker room peer pressure" in the department ranks. MPNnow Home RSS
  • So this show proved to be a bit of a departure. Times, Sunday Times
  • King was eight years old when he was slapped by a white woman in a downtown Atlanta department store and insulted with a racial slur.
  • Trying to link things cross-departmentally is something that in my experience gets talked about a lot, but in reality rarely happens. The Audacity of Growth at Helpful Technology
  • The "lawmen" in the Justice Department, etc, who are doing the hard work to bring these Wall Street criminals to the courthouse will be compromised. Stephen Gyllenhaal: Goldman and Sachs and Lipstick and Rouge
  • Spanish-American War of 1898 Edison suggested to the Navy Department the adoption of a compound of calcium carbide and calcium phosphite, which when placed in a shell and fired from a gun would explode as soon as it struck water and ignite, producing a blaze that would continue several minutes and make the ships of the enemy visible for four or five miles at sea. Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • John gives Mary the coin, she hides it in the red box for safe-keeping and departs.
  • The State Department contacted American embassies around the world to make sure that they repeated the line that it was an aberration and not in line with American ‘values.’
  • The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
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