noun

• The withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.

  ‘the report warned that Brexit would reduce the EU's potential GDP’

  More example sentences

  • ‘she told the news conference she wanted Brexit negotiations to go smoothly’
  • ‘The public, according to polls, don't trust statistics suggesting a "Brexit" might lose 3m jobs.’
  • ‘Setting the course for a Brexit in the general election would weaken the EU.’
  • ‘A Brexit deal would be struck from weakness: they take 40% of our exports, we import just 7% of theirs.’
  • ‘As the Brexit debate has engulfed the island nation, political and business notables are queuing to take their stance on the issue.’
  • ‘Even though economists said that Brexit was costly and unlikely, they reckoned a Conservative election win was on the cards.’
  • ‘That means the Conservatives risk presiding over a Brexit and the break-up of the United Kingdom within five years.’
  • ‘If Brexit is not to happen, then Europe needs to send this message quickly, clearly, and in a way that is somehow palatable to a country that doesn't want to listen.’
  • ‘Brixit fears have been heightened by a summit on the European Union budget, which started today in Brussels.’
  • ‘Brexit then becomes an accepted fact, even before any in-out referendum is held.’
  • ‘Whilst 3 million jobs may or may not depend on our trade with the EU, relatively few would be lost through a Brixit.’