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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

quit¹ / kwit/ • v. (quit·ting ; past and past part. quit·ted or quit ) 1. [tr.] leave (a place), usually permanently: he was ordered to quit the cabin immediately. ∎ inf. resign from (a job): she quit her job in a pizza restaurant | [intr.] he quit as manager of struggling Third Division City. ∎ inf. stop or discontinue (an action or activity): quit moaning! I want to quit smoking. 2. (quit oneself) archaic behave in a specified way: quit yourselves like men, and fight. • adj. (quit of) rid of: I want to be quit of him. PHRASES: quit hold of archaic let go of.quit² • n. [in comb.] used in names of various small songbirds found in the Caribbean area, e.g., bananaquit, grassquit.

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Quit

West's Encyclopedia of American Law | 2005 | Copyright

QUIT

To vacate; remove from; surrender possession.

When a tenant leaves premises that he or she has been renting, the tenant is said to quit such premises.

A notice to quit is written notification given by a landlord to a tenant that indicates that the landlord wants to repossess the premises and that the tenant must vacate them at a certain designated time.

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quit

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

quit1 adj. free, clear of. XIII. (i) ME. quīt, quīte (surviving in QUITE) — OF. quite — L. quiētus QUIET. Superseded by (ii) later ME. or early mod. quit(te) — (O)F. quitte — medL. quittus, special development of L. quiētus.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

quit2
A. vb. † set free, clear, clear off;

B. †repay, requite;

C. renounce; leave. XIV. ME. quitte, repl. earlier quite (XIII), — (O)F. quitter, earlier quiter; cf. medL. quittāre, quiētāre, f. L. quiētus QUIT1.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

quit •acquit, admit, backlit, bedsit, befit, bit, Brit, Britt, chit, commit, demit, dit, emit, fit, flit, frit, git, grit, hit, intermit, it, kit, knit, legit, lickety-split, lit, manumit, mishit, mitt, nit, omit, outsit, outwit, permit, pit, Pitt, pretermit, quit, remit, retrofit, shit, sit, skit, slit, snit, spit, split, sprit, squit, submit, tit, transmit, twit, whit, wit, writ, zit •albeit, howbeit •poet •bluet, cruet, intuit, suet, Yuit •Inuit • floruit • Jesuit •Babbitt, cohabit, habit, rabbet, rabbit •ambit, gambit •jackrabbit • barbet • Nesbit • rarebit •adhibit, exhibit, gibbet, inhibit, prohibit •titbit (US tidbit) • flibbertigibbet •Cobbett, gobbet, hobbit, obit, probit •orbit • Tobit •cubit, two-bit •hatchet, latchet, ratchet •Pritchett •crotchet, rochet

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