Exit vs Exeat - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between exit and exeat

is that exit is a way out while exeat is a license or permit for absence from a college or a religious house (such as a monastery.

is to go out.

(en noun)

A way out.

He was looking for the exit and got lost .

A passage or gate from inside someplace to the outside, outgang.

She stood at the exit of the house looking back and waving at those inside .

The action of leaving.

He made his exit at the opportune time .

Death.

The untimely exit of a consummate politician .

* (a way out) egress, outgang, outway * (the action of leaving) egress, outgoing, departure

* emergency exit * exit interview * exit policy * exit poll * exit program * exit strategy * exit wound * fire exit

(en verb)

To go out

To leave

To die

(en noun)

A license or permit for absence from a college or a religious house (such as a monastery)

A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese

* ne exeat ----