"take leave" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes leave",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking leave",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took leave",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken leave",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> leave"
      },
      "expansion": "take leave (third-person singular simple present takes leave, present participle taking leave, simple past took leave, past participle taken leave)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "65 35",
          "word": "take one's leave"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "65 35",
          "word": "take leave of one's senses"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "65 35",
          "word": "take French leave"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 March, W James Antle III, “Front-runner Failure”, in American Spectator, volume 44, number 2, page 12",
          "text": "Romney had already taken leave from Bain Capital by the time the American Pad & Paper layoffs took place.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, leave."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_leave-en-verb-ptr6hQoZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "take",
          "take#English"
        ],
        [
          "leave",
          "leave#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343",
          "text": "So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990 August, Linda Abbott with Marsha Frey, “Fatal diplomacy”, in History Today, volume 40, number 8, page 10",
          "text": "Rincon had taken leave of the king in early May",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995 October 12, Furman Bisher, “Little fanfare for Cincinnati”, in Atlanta Journal Constitution",
          "text": "Those who hadn't already taken leave at Javier Lopez's last time up, turned for the exits, not taking the time to cast one last signature boo.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999 Spring, Judith Grossman, “How Aliens Think.”, in Ploughshares, volume 25, number 1, page 146",
          "text": "Lili takes leave with a kiss, and says hi to a young man sitting alone, sulking on a bench outside. / That's Jeannie's boyfriend",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To depart."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_leave-en-verb-vQCO92re",
      "links": [
        [
          "depart",
          "depart"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(often with of) To depart."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "often",
        "with-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take leave"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "take one's leave"
    },
    {
      "word": "take leave of one's senses"
    },
    {
      "word": "take French leave"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes leave",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking leave",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took leave",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken leave",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> leave"
      },
      "expansion": "take leave (third-person singular simple present takes leave, present participle taking leave, simple past took leave, past participle taken leave)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 March, W James Antle III, “Front-runner Failure”, in American Spectator, volume 44, number 2, page 12",
          "text": "Romney had already taken leave from Bain Capital by the time the American Pad & Paper layoffs took place.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, leave."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "take",
          "take#English"
        ],
        [
          "leave",
          "leave#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343",
          "text": "So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990 August, Linda Abbott with Marsha Frey, “Fatal diplomacy”, in History Today, volume 40, number 8, page 10",
          "text": "Rincon had taken leave of the king in early May",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995 October 12, Furman Bisher, “Little fanfare for Cincinnati”, in Atlanta Journal Constitution",
          "text": "Those who hadn't already taken leave at Javier Lopez's last time up, turned for the exits, not taking the time to cast one last signature boo.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999 Spring, Judith Grossman, “How Aliens Think.”, in Ploughshares, volume 25, number 1, page 146",
          "text": "Lili takes leave with a kiss, and says hi to a young man sitting alone, sulking on a bench outside. / That's Jeannie's boyfriend",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To depart."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "depart",
          "depart"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(often with of) To depart."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "often",
        "with-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take leave"
}