(Irregular preterit, past participle: quit).
1. To stop an action.
2. To take leave of one's employment, permanently and abruptly.
3. To exit from an enclosed area.

ETYM Old Eng. quite, Old Fren. quite, French quitte. Related to Quit, Quiet.
(Usually followed by 'of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty); SYN. rid.

The act or an instance of quitting a job.

1. An FTP command that instructs the server to drop the current connection with the client from which it received the command.
2. A command in many applications for exiting the program.

1. To stop in an orderly manner.
2. To execute the normal shutdown of a program and return control to the operating system. Compare abort, bomb, crash(definition 1), hang.