Brexit

alternative Brixit

1. UKgovernmentWithdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.

   We must lift the uncertainty caused by Brexit.

   2017 June 19, Michel Barnier, “Brexit Negotiations: David Davis says ‘Promising Start’ Made”, in BBC News

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   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.

   2012 May 15, Peter Wilding, “Stumbling towards the Brexit”, in EurActiv, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2016

   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 Dublin […]

   2015, Denis MacShane, Brexit: How Britain Will Leave Europe, London: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 6

   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 Sunderland showed better than expected returns for the Brexit camp. A surprise victory for a Brexit in Swansea, which was expected to vote to Remain, did little to dampen concerns despite Scotland overwhelmingly backing staying in the Union.

   2016 June 24, Kate McCann, “EU referendum live: David Cameron resigns after UK shocks the world by voting for Brexit”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2016

   The pensions of British Eurocrats are shaping up to be one of the most politically poisonous points in the UK’s Brexit talks, as the EU and London prepare to clash over liabilities running to several billion euros.

   2016 August 1, Alex Barker, Jim Brunsden, “Eurocrats’ pensions shape up to be flashpoint in Brexit talks”, in The Financial Times, London

   [Donald] Tusk said: “Our agreement will not make trade between the UK and the EU frictionless or smoother. It will make it more complicated and costly than today, for all of us. This is the essence of Brexit.”

   2018 March 7, Daniel Boffey, Jennifer Rankin, “EU scorns UK’s ‘pick and mix’ approach to trade post-Brexit”, in The Guardian, London

   Antonyms: Bremain

present singular third person Brexits · participle present Brexiting · participle past Brexited · past Brexited · alternative Brixit

1. To exit the European Union.

   Brexiting the EU, not leaving Europe

   2015, Stefano Francesco Fugazzi, Brexit?, →ISBN, page 27

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   [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 Brexit Club: The Inside Story of the Leave Campaign’s Shock Victory, →ISBN

   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: The Derangement of American Politics, →ISBN

2. broadlyslangTo exit, to leave (e.g. a romantic relationship).