Definition of "exeat"

exeat

noun
plural exeats
1. A license or permit for absence from a university or a religious house (such as a monastery).
2. A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.
3. (dated, UK) Leave of absence from a public school or college.
  Quotations
  [I]t was impossible to imagine her doing anything except eating ice-cream and smoking, like a child on an exeat from school.
  1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 66
4. (obsolete, theater) A stage direction to leave the stage.