{
    "term": "depart",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "depart",
            "heSheIt": "departs"
        },
        "pastSimple": "departed",
        "pastParticiple": "departed",
        "ingForm": "departing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to leave a place, especially to start a trip",
            "sensetop": "depart (for…) (from…)depart something",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Flights for Rome depart from Terminal 3.",
                    "contextForm": "depart (for…) (from…)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She waited until the last of the guests had departed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The train departed Amritsar at 6.15 p.m.",
                    "contextForm": "depart something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He departs for New York tomorrow morning."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The plane was scheduled to depart at 8.30."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The flight was scheduled to depart later that day."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They shook hands all round and prepared to depart."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We depart from Heathrow at ten o'clock tonight."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most of the tourists had departed the area."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This train will depart in three minutes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You must depart for England immediately."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verb + depart": ["be due to", "be scheduled to", "be waiting to"],
                "preposition": ["for", "from"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to leave your job",
            "sensetop": "depart something",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the departing president"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He departed his job December 16.",
                    "contextForm": "depart something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He departed the troubled firm after less than a year in the post."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Giving a large pay-off to a departing executive may be seen as rewarding failure."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verb + depart": ["be due to", "be scheduled to", "be waiting to"],
                "preposition": ["for", "from"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to die. People say ‘depart this life’ to avoid saying ‘die’.",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Life stages"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈpɑːt/",
                "audio": "de/depart/depart__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈpɑːts/",
                "audio": "de/depart/departs__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈpɑːtɪd/",
                "audio": "de/depart/departed__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈpɑːtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "de/depart/departing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈpɑːrt/",
                "audio": "de/depart/depart__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈpɑːrts/",
                "audio": "de/depart/departs__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈpɑːrtɪd/",
                "audio": "de/depart/departed__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈpɑːrtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "de/depart/departing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French departir, based on Latin dispertire ‘to divide’. The original sense was ‘separate’, also ‘take leave of each other’, hence ‘go away’."
}