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give notice (to someone) 1. to warn your employer that you will stop working. Jones gave notice in October that he planned to leave at the end of the school year. 2. to tell an employee that they will no longer be employed. The company didn't give its employees notice, they just sent everyone home and closed the plant. Etymology: based on the literal meaning of give notice (= to give written or printed information) |
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His master suspended a bell about his neck so that the Dog might give notice of his presence wherever he went. These governors give notice to the adjacent places that the army is to march that way on such a day, and that they are assessed such a quantity of bread, beer, and cows. It was finally settled that this should be our plan; and that inquiries and preparations should immediately be set on foot; and while my mother busied herself with these, I should return to Horton Lodge at the close of my four weeks' vacation, and give notice for my final departure when things were in train for the speedy commencement of our school. |
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