leaver

See also: Leaver

English

Etymology

From leave +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)

Noun

leaver (plural leavers)

1. One who leaves.

   This year's school leavers have excellent grades.

   He's a leaver, not a stayer: he'll never be happy tied down in one place.

2. (UK politics) Alternative letter-case form of Leaver
   • 2023 February 11, Toby Helm, “Revealed: secret cross-party summit held to confront failings of Brexit”, in The Observer‎, →ISSN:

     An extraordinary cross-party summit bringing together leading leavers and remainers – including Michael Gove and senior members of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet – has been held in high secrecy to address the failings of Brexit and how to remedy them in the national interest, the Observer can reveal.

3. (Western Australia) A schoolie.

Derived terms

• bad leaver
• school-leaver

Anagrams

• laveer, reveal, vealer