give notice

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give notice (third-person singular simple present gives notice, present participle giving notice, simple past gave notice, past participle given notice)

  1. (idiomatic) To announce one's intent to leave a job; to inform an employer that one is leaving.
    He gave notice yesterday that he'll leave in two weeks.
    Did you hear that Jack gave notice today?
    • 2013 April 16, Paula Cocozza, “Resignation by cake: the sweetest way to say goodbye”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
      A Cambridgeshire man recently gave notice with a message piped on top of a passion cake. A half-baked idea, or a generous parting gift for the office?
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see give,‎ notice.
    • 1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 149:
      Having got its Act, the M.B.M. & M.J.R. apparently had misgivings about the route, in view of the very heavy engineering works that would be necessary, and on November 9, 1846, the company gave notice of a further bill for a deviated line, which was passed into law on July 22, 1847.

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