departures
- 1Plural of departure.
The board showed a long line of departures from gate twelve.
A wave of senior departures left the company short of experienced managers.
Note
An ordinary -s plural, available only where departure is countable. Count the leavings (trains, flights, colleagues) and you have departures. Count breaks with a plan or practice and you have departures from it, with from naming what is left behind. Where departure means the act in general, it is uncountable and stays singular. The plural also serves the technical senses: a navigator or surveyor can record several departures, the east–west distances made along a course or line.
departures is a form of departure
departure, noun: The act of going away from a place, or a person or thing that has left. Full entry
- Forms
- departuredepartures plural
- Spelling
- departure → departures: add -s
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