quiet-quit

A form of quiet quit — To cease overachieving at one's workplace to focus on one's personal life; to do only what is reasonably or contractually required.

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Meanings

verbquiet-quit (third-person singular simple present quiet-quits, present participle quiet-quitting, simple past and past participle quiet-quit or quiet-quitted)

present singular third person quiet-quits · participle present quiet-quitting · participle past quiet-quitted · past quiet-quitted

  1. alternativeAlternative form of quiet quit.

    I fell in love with acting by doing youth theatre but just wasn’t finding the right challenges, so I quiet-quit. Then my friend Deborah Frances-White, with whom I’ve collaborated a lot on The Guilty Feminist, said: “I’ve written you this amazing part.”

    2023 August 13, Michael Hogan, quoting Susan Wokoma, “Actor Susan Wokoma: ‘We all want to be married to Emma Thompson, don’t we?’”, in The Observer
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APA

quiet-quit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quiet-quit

MLA

“quiet-quit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quiet-quit. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quiet-quit,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quiet-quit.

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