leaving
present participle of
leave
Meaning of leaving in English
(Definition of leaving from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of leaving
leaving
Perhaps this is because higher taxes are often used to fund a higher level of desirable government services, leaving citizens equally well or better off.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
The reason for leaving them out is to avoid any possible circular influence on integration preferences.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
The first places all inequality constraints directly into a logarithmic barrier, leaving only explicit equality constraints.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
In general, the two extreme categories were defined first, leaving the middle category for the remainder of the sample.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
This explanation is restricted, however, leaving out primary pathology of the cognitive processes in schizophrenia.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
The efficiency of global search methods enables us to keep only small solution fragments, which leads to a larger neighbourhood leaving more room for improvement.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Since the treatments of the two cases are rather similar, we give the details only for the first case, leaving the second to the reader.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
They went as far as leaving the meetings to show their discontent and ended up not attending them at all any more.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Leaving aside the possibility that these claims are hyperbolic, the book touches on issues of growing importance for research, policy and practice in children's services.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
We hope that leaving any other motivation aside, this result can be of interest to people working in the area.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Leaving the remaining diagrams as exercises, we arrive at the following theorem.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
We built it by extracting the lexical words in our training data, and leaving only these tags.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Four snails were excluded from the autocorrelation analysis because of short production period leaving 17 individuals for the analysis.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Leaving alone the question as to why this might happen, it seems useful to also produce some precise quantitative estimations of such suspected exaggerations.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
After this scene, all optimism vanished, leaving the members thoroughly despondent.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
