revenge quit

verb

To resign from employment in a deliberately retaliatory or disruptive manner, typically as a response to perceived mistreatment.

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Meanings

verbrevenge quit (third-person singular simple present revenge quits, present participle revenge quitting, simple past and past participle revenge quit)

present singular third person revenge quits · participle present revenge quitting · alternative revenge-quit

  1. informalintransitiveTo resign from employment in a deliberately retaliatory or disruptive manner, typically as a response to perceived mistreatment.

    Even as some of us struggled to get out of our lockdown pyjamas, people were donning revenge dresses and revenge heels to work; bosses were horrified to find employees revenge-quitting, bringing on The Great Resignation; and travellers revenge-flocked to the hills

    2021 December 30, Kritika Kapoor, “2021: The Year of Revenge”, in The Times of India, New Delhi
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APA

revenge quit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/revenge%20quit

MLA

“revenge quit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/revenge%20quit. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “revenge quit,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/revenge%20quit.

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