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revenge quit en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (informal, intransitive) To resign from employment in a deliberately retaliatory or disruptive manner, typically as a response to perceived mistreatment.
    • Even as some of us struggled to get out of our lockdown pyjamas, people were donning revenge dresses and revenge heels to work; bosses were horrified to find employees revenge-quitting, bringing on The Great Resignation; and travellers revenge-flocked to the hills 2021 December 30, Kritika Kapoor, “2021: The Year of Revenge”, in The Times of India, New Delhi:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
revenge quit Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
revenge quit Tense=Past lexicographic
revenge-quit alternative lexicographic
revenge quits Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
revenge quitting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

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