"early return" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2019, Fedor G. Pikus, Hands-On Design Patterns with C++, page 469",
          "text": "With RAII, the closing action cannot be skipped or bypassed, even if the function exits the scope prematurely with an early return or by throwing an exception.",
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        "The act of returning from a function before reaching the end of that function."
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        "(programming) The act of returning from a function before reaching the end of that function."
      ],
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  "word": "early return"
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        "The act of returning from a function before reaching the end of that function."
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        "(programming) The act of returning from a function before reaching the end of that function."
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