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getaway en · ADJ

Etymology

Deverbal from get away.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Pertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans.
    • They'd been discussing their getaway plans for weeks.

Forms

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get-away alternative lexicographic

Translations (4)

de Flucht- (pertaining to an escape) · es fúgido (pertaining to an escape) · es fugaz (pertaining to an escape) · es de huida (pertaining to an escape)

getaway en · NOUN

Etymology

Deverbal from get away.

Meanings

  1. A means of escape.
  2. The effecting of an escape.
    • This dramatic arrival of the figure in landscape had revitalized its whole problem for him, and that on the practice of a métier going a little stale by repetition. No get away from it, Edmund, he had to have the model. And what a model - tinted up by nature herself as the perfect complement of her own harmonics! 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 58:
  3. (informal) A vacation or holiday, or the destination for one.

Forms

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getaways Number=Plur lexicographic
get-away alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

getaway man · getaway car · getaway driver

Synonyms

leave (vacation, holiday) · time off

Translations (15)

pt retiro (vacation or destination) · es escapada (vacation or destination) · it fuga (vacation or destination) · de Kurzurlaub (vacation or destination) · ka გაქცევა (effecting of an escape) · bg измъкване (effecting of an escape) · de Erholungsort (vacation or destination) · ka გაქცევა (vacation or destination) · bg бягство (effecting of an escape) · ka გაპარვა (effecting of an escape) · de Flucht (effecting of an escape) · ka გასაქცევი (means of escape) · es escapatoria (means of escape) · it fuga (means of escape) · ka გაპარვა (vacation or destination)