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  • verb Present participle of decamp.

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Examples

  • Summertime, and the livin is easy – for the Clintons who made $108 million after decamping from the White House.

    Clinton hits Obama directly in new ad 2008

  • WHY THIS MATTERS: In the short term, Barak's decamping acts to stabilize Netanyahu's rule - but the short term may be very short indeed.

    Bradley Burston: Think Israel's a Lost Cause? Ten Reasons to Think Again Bradley Burston 2011

  • If real reality's what you're after, you're better off decamping to a coffee shop and people watching for a few hours.

    Philippa Warr: Why Reality Television Isn't Real Philippa Warr 2011

  • Since Aon earns most of its profit outside of the U.S., it only makes economic sense for the company to escape this double taxation by decamping to a country that doesn't discourage a domiciled company from bringing already taxed foreign profits back home.

    Aon's Move Highlights Bad Tax Incentives 2012

  • But as GDP slows, many French industrial champions—the backbone of France's economy—are decamping overseas and laying workers off at home.

    Rising French Borrowing Costs Signal Danger William Horobin 2011

  • At the Emad al Rahman mosque near Tahrir, which famously accepted hundreds of injured protesters during the height of the violence in the past three weeks, doctors were far from decamping.

    A Day After Mubarak's Fall, the Clean Up Starts Tamer El-Ghobashy 2011

  • And richer still when we are told the banking system cannot be subjected to the obvious reforms required because the fat cat financiers will implement their own form of strike action – decamping elsewhere.

    Letters: Strike threats and thresholds 2011

  • But rising concerns about a U.S. crackdown on tax havens have a growing number of companies rolling up their beach blankets and decamping to far less sunny shores.

    POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: June 29, 2009 2009

  • And richer still when we are told the banking system cannot be subjected to the obvious reforms required because the fat cat financiers will implement their own form of strike action – decamping elsewhere.

    Letters: Strike threats and thresholds 2011

  • With Meloni gone and Hargitay scaling back her duties by mid-season and long-time show-runner Neal Baer decamping to CBS and A Gifted Man, it's going to be a very different SVU next season, that's for sure.

    Ask Matt: Is Modern Family the Best? Plus: Killing, Fringe and More! 2011

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