pull up stakes

1. 1.

   remove oneself from an association with or participation in

   “She wants to leave”

   “The teenager left home”

   “She left her position with the Red Cross”

   “He left the Senate after two terms”

   “after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes”

   Synonymsleavedepart

   Broaderchange

   Narrowerleave officedrop out

Questions about pull up stakes

What does pull up stakes mean?

pull up stakes means "remove oneself from an association with or participation in".

What is another word for pull up stakes?

Close synonyms include leave, depart. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pull up stakes a common word?

pull up stakes is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.