egress

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Definition

to exit

• Picketing strikers may not block access to or egress from the premises.

• What is your plan for emergency egress.
egress = exit
• In event of power failure, electronic locks must unlock from the direction of egress.
egress = exit
• There was nowhere to move the car, however, as the only route of egress was now a foaming, full-blown river.
  Jon Krakauer  --  Into the Wild
egress = exit
• That'll automatically replenish the air I lose with my entries and exits (what we NASA folk call ingress and egress).
  Andy Weir  --  The Martian
egress = exit
• "Clary has seen the Instructions," Lina said. "She knows there's an egress. She might find it."
  Jeanne DuPrau  --  The City of Ember
egress = exit
• 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
egress = exit
• He hastily thrust the uniform into a suitcase in an empty compartment, and a few minutes later, dressed in ordinary clothes, he left the train just before it started off, using the same means for egress-the door near the dining-car.
  Agatha Christie  --  Murder On The Orient Express
egress = exit
• 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
egress = exit
• They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress to the sudden impulses of...
  Edgar Allan Poe  --  The Masque of the Red Death
egress = exit
• Then I stow the bedroom and go back to the airlock for a normal egress to Mars.
  Andy Weir  --  The Martian
egress = exit
• Egress, thought Doon with a smile.
  Jeanne DuPrau  --  The City of Ember
egress = exit
• When I'm driving, I'll keep the bedroom folded up near the airlock, ready for emergency egress.
  Andy Weir  --  The Martian
egress = exit
• "E for Egress!" cried Lina.
  Jeanne DuPrau  --  The City of Ember
egress = exit
• "If you add an s to this word, right where this tear in the paper is, you get 'Egress.'"
  Jeanne DuPrau  --  The City of Ember
egress = exit
• It's meant to be 'Egress,' with two s's.
  Jeanne DuPrau  --  The City of Ember
egress = exit
• The title of this document is 'Instructions for Egress.'
  Jeanne DuPrau  --  The City of Ember
egress = exit
• The egress order had been determined years earlier.
  Andy Weir  --  The Martian
egress = exit
• 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

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