Usually means: Requesting permission to proceed forward.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word by your leave:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. by-your-leave: Merriam-Webster
  2. by-your-leave, by your leave, by your leave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. by-your-leave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. by-your-leave, by-your-leave, by your leave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. by-your-leave, by your leave: Wiktionary
  6. by-your-leave: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. by-your-leave, by your leave: Dictionary.com
  8. By Your Leave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. by-your-leave, by your leave: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. by your leave: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. by your leave: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. by your leave: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (by your leave)

▸ noun:  Request for permission.

Similar:
by-your-leave, leave, permit, way leave, placard, wayleave, walking papers, loan, leavetime, pass, more...

Opposite:
without permission, uninvited, unauthorized, unsanctioned

Phrases:
without so much as a by your leave, more...

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Similar:
by-your-leave, leave, permit, way leave, placard, wayleave, walking papers, loan, leavetime, pass, more...

Opposite:
without permission, uninvited, unauthorized, unsanctioned

Phrases:
without so much as a by your leave, more...



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