Search Result for "pull_up_stakes":
Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. remove oneself from an association with or participation in;
- Example: "She wants to leave"
- Example: "The teenager left home"
- Example: "She left her position with the Red Cross"
- Example: "He left the Senate after two terms"
- Example: "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes"
[syn: leave, depart, pull up stakes]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pull up stakes v 1: remove oneself from an association with or participation in; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes" [syn: leave, depart, pull up stakes]