Brexit
To exit the European Union.
Proper noun
- Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.
- Unless a clear view is pushed that Britain must lead in Europe at the very least to achieve the completion of the single market then the portmanteau for Greek euro exit might be followed by another sad word, Brexit. -...
- The business community began to take the idea of Brexit seriously. Three major American banks, the Bank of America, Citibank and Morgan Stanley, revealed they were working on contingency plans to relocate from London to...
- David Cameron has resigned as Prime Minister after Britain voted to leave the European Union. It followed a turbulent night with Remain campaigners quietly confident until the early hours when results from Newcastle and...
Antonyms: Bremain
Origin
Etymology tree Ancient Greek Βρεττανός (Brettanós) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ίᾱ (-íā) Ancient Greek Βρεττανία (Brettanía)bor. Latin Britannia Anglo-Norman Britainebor. Middle English Britayne English Britain Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti Proto-Italic *ejō Proto-Italic *eō Latin eō Latin exeō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin exitusder. Middle English exit English exit blend English Brexit Blend of Britain + exit, formed by analogy with Grexit. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest attested use is on 15 May 2012 in a Euractiv blog post by Peter Wilding titled “Stumbling towards the Brexit”, formed by analogy with...
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Bayxit Blaxit Calexit Catalexit Czexit Dexit Fixit Frexit Grexit Huxit Italexit Lexit Megxit Nexit Polexit Quexit regrexit Roexit Scexit Swexit Texit Waxit Wexit
Derived
Brexiteer Brexiter Brexitish Brexitist Brexity Brexocalypse Brexodus Brexshit hard Brexit post-Brexit regrexit soft Brexit
Verb
- To exit the European Union.
- Brexiting the EU, not leaving Europe - 2015, Stefano Francesco Fugazzi, Brexit?, →ISBN, page 27:
- [Nigel] Farage recalls: What was clear from that polling was that in June 2015 the most trusted person in the country on whether to Brexit or not to Brexit was David Cameron. - 2016, Owen Bennet, chapter 10, in The...
- Parisiens I had talked to were universally disgusted: with David Cameron, for holding the vote; with the British, for Brexiting; […] - 2016, Maureen Dowd, “Unconventional Conventions”, in The Year of Voting Dangerously:...
- To exit, to leave (e.g. a romantic relationship).