exiting

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of exit.

   Exiting the highway too quickly, he nearly lost control of the car.

   The committee debated the penalties for exiting a contract early.

   Note

   One -ing form does two jobs here. After be it builds the progressive (she is exiting the building), and in noun positions it acts as a gerund (exiting a contract early). Because the verb can be transitive or intransitive, both exiting the room and simply exiting are correct. In computing, exiting a program means closing it, and as a euphemism exiting can mean dying.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The act of leaving or going out; a departure.

   The orderly exiting of the audience reflected careful crowd management.

   Her abrupt exiting from the negotiations signaled that talks had collapsed.

   Similardeparture, withdrawal, egress

   Oppositeentry, arrival, entrance

   Note

   Here the action has hardened into a true noun. Unlike the verbal gerund, which takes a direct object (exiting the room), this noun links to its place or agent through of or from: the exiting of the audience, her exiting from the talks. It is countable, with the plural exitings, and adjectives such as orderly or abrupt describe it as they would any noun.

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