Antonyms of verb leave_office

1 sense of leave office

Sense 1
leave office, quit, step down, resign -- (give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal")
       Antonym of take office (Sense 1)
      => take office -- (assume an office, duty, or title; "When will the new President take office?")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb leave_office

1 sense of leave office

Sense 1
leave office, quit, step down, resign -- (give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal")
       => leave, depart, pull up stakes -- (remove oneself from an association with or participation in; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes")