exit clause

noun

A provision in a legal document or lease allowing a signatory or lessee to terminate the contract legally and usually without penalty under certain circumstances.

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Meanings

nounexit clause (plural exit clauses)

plural exit clauses

  1. lawA provision in a legal document or lease allowing a signatory or lessee to terminate the contract legally and usually without penalty under certain circumstances.

    Eurosceptic Conservative MPs will still vote down the government’s Brexit deal even if Theresa May negotiates an exit clause from the Irish backstop, the former minister Steve Baker has insisted.

    2018 November 8, Heather Stewart, Daniel Boffey, “Tory Brexiters planning to reject deal even with backstop exit clause”, in The Guardian
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APA

exit clause. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exit%20clause

MLA

“exit clause.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exit%20clause. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “exit clause,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exit%20clause.

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