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Definition
to exit- Picketing strikers may not block access to or egress from the premises.
egress = exit (departure from)
- must plan for emergency egress
- in event of power failure, electronic locks must unlock from the direction of egress
- Brain Waves ping-ponging inside my skull, no hope of sleep or easy egress to a plane where memory could not intrude, I bent my head, submitting to shame.Ellen Hopkins -- Crank
- They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress to the sudden impulses of...Edgar Allan Poe -- The Masque of the Red Death
- All egress from my chamber, except through a window, was cut off.Poe, Edgar Allan -- The Angel of the Odd
- I guessed, by his preparations, that egress was allowed, and, leaving my hard couch, made a movement to follow him.Bronte, Emily -- Wuthering Heights
- A small door, close to the lodge of the concierge, gave ingress and egress to the servants and masters when they were on foot.Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The waters of the great deep have ingress and egress to the soul.Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, First Series
- This gave me not only egress and regress..., but gave me room to store my goods.Defoe, Daniel -- Robinson Crusoe
- Had he known that he was about to enter a tunnel whose only egress was his own annihilation, would he have turned away?Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- At this announcement Isabel stiffened; she was on the point of asking if there were no other egress from the convent.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
- At this announcement Isabel stiffened; she was on the point of asking if there were no other egress from the convent.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- "If you add an s to this word, right where this tear in the paper is, you get 'Egress: Do you know what that means?"Jeanne DuPrau -- The City of Ember
- The means of egress employed by the murderers.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- And if there's no ingress or egress—no valve through which may be vented the various pressures that accrue naturally in a closed temporal system—"Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- When she had laid the supper-cloth, the bridge was lowered to give her means of egress, and she withdrew for the night.Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
- A small door, close to the lodge of the concierge, gave ingress and egress to the servants and masters when they were on foot.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The gates of the drive opened wide to give egress to the viceregal cavalcade.James Joyce -- Ulysses
- Only to the lamasery did there appear to be any climbable egress at all.James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
egress = exit
egress = exit