sign off
— phrasal verb with sign uk/saɪn/us/saɪn/verb
(STOP WORK)
US informal to stop doing your work or a similar activity for a period of time:
As it's Friday, I think I'll sign off early today.
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Causing something to end
- abandon
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- bitter
- draw
- knock off (sth)
- lay
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- leave it at that idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth)
- lift
- raise
- stone-dead
- the curtain falls on sth idiom
- to the bitter end idiom
- top sth off
- walk
- walk away
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(FINANCIAL SUPPORT)
UK informal to report to a government employment office that you now have a job and do not need to receive benefit (= money paid by the government)
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Social security & state benefits
- AFDC
- be on relief idiom
- benefit
- child benefit
- claim
- claimant
- EBT
- family allowance
- family credit
- giro
- housing benefit
- income support
- relief
- sickness benefit
- sign
- social security
- social welfare
- unemployment benefit
- welfare
- welfare state
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