Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of coming or going out; emergence.
- noun The right to leave or go out.
- noun A path or opening for going out; an exit.
- noun Astronomy The emergence of a celestial body from eclipse or occultation.
- intransitive verb To go out; emerge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of going or issuing out; a going or passing out; departure, especially from an inclosed or confined place.
- noun Provision for passing out; a means or place of exit.
- noun In astronomy, the passing of a star, planet, or satellite (except the moon) out from behind or before the disk of the sun, the moon, or a planet.
- To go out; depart; leave.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To go out; to depart; to leave.
- noun The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure.
- noun (Astron.) The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
exit orleave ; to go or come out. - noun An
exit orway out - noun The process of exiting or
leaving . - noun astronomy The end of the apparent transit of a small
astronomical body over the disk of a larger one.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb come out of
- noun the becoming visible
- noun (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse
- noun the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She said that she and her colleague has a responsibility to customers to allow them easy ingress and egress from the station.
Newspaper 'war' at the Embankment Roy Greenslade 2010
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The NYPD also agreed to adopt written policies that ensure those lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights can gain access to protest areas, have adequate means of ingress and egress from the areas set aside for the protest, and that police provide adequate warning and an opportunity to disperse prior to using the Mounted Unit for crowd control.
Civil Rights 2008
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The NYPD also agreed to adopt written policies that ensure those lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights can gain access to protest areas, have adequate means of ingress and egress from the areas set aside for the protest, and that police provide adequate warning and an opportunity to disperse prior to using the Mounted Unit for crowd control.
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The NYPD also agreed to adopt written policies that ensure those lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights can gain access to protest areas, have adequate means of ingress and egress from the areas set aside for the protest, and that police provide adequate warning and an opportunity to disperse prior to using the Mounted Unit for crowd control.
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From Leonardo's point of view, however, the eyes were window - (or velo -) like because they provided the soul with two means of egress from the body, not because they permitted others to see into oneself.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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The NYPD also agreed to adopt written policies that ensure those lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights can gain access to protest areas, have adequate means of ingress and egress from the areas set aside for the protest, and that police provide adequate warning and an opportunity to disperse prior to using the Mounted Unit for crowd control.
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Judge Graffeo raises a good point in regard to the difficulty that this holding presents in determining when a particular means of ingress and egress is "primarily" used to access a common carrier.
Personal Injury 2007
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Where, as here, a stairwell or approach is primarily used as a means of access to and egress from the common carrier, that carrier has a duty to exercise reasonable care to see that such means of approach remain in a safe condition or, where appropriate, to take such precautions or give such warnings as would protect those using such area against unforeseen danger.
Personal Injury 2007
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The first involves the loss prevention employee physically preventing my egress from the property.
Boing Boing 2007
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I was stationed in Korea, and my team chief and I would plan our egress from the site.
prowsej commented on the word egress
In property law, ingress, egress and regress are the rights of a person (such as a lessee) to enter, leave, and return to a property, respectively.
October 19, 2008
asativum commented on the word egress
I knew there was nothing wrong with regressing now and then. Woo-hoo!
October 19, 2008