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• v  leave a camp
  The hikers decamped before dawn
• v  run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
• v  leave suddenly
  She persuaded him to decamp

• One fear is that multinational firms that have made Hong Kong their Asian base will increasingly decamp for cleaner localesparticularly Singapore, dubbed the best city for Asian .
• In the early 20th century, white was the uniform of choice for Americans well-to-do enough to decamp from their city digs to warmer climes for months at a time: light summer .
• There are locals who, reaching a certain age, decamp with their oxygen bottles to Denver.

• break camp
• abscond
• bolt
• absquatulate
• run off
• go off
• make off
• skip
• vamoose

News & Articles

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• Tumbling down
  ROBB DeCAMP Special to the Times The smokestack that once towered over American Municipal Power's Richard H.
  June 10, 2013 - The Marietta Times
• NSA whistleblower's plans to stay in Hong Kong, Iceland offer no assurance of freedom
  The decision by American and self-proclaimed NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to decamp to Hong Kong after leaking U.S surveillance secrets offers no guarantee of freedom.
  June 10, 2013 - Fox News
• Dexter softball's record-breaking season ends in regional final loss
  By Scott DeCamp | sdecamp1@mlive.com GRAND LEDGE - Allie Havers' overall pitching performance during Saturday's Division 1 softball regional at Grand Ledge was about as flawless as one can get in two games. In a word, it was dominant....
  June 9, 2013 - MLive.com

Quotes

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• Alexander Payne in Omaha World-Herald
  Currently, I'm producing a movie called 'Cedar Rapids,' which was going to film in Iowa but was forced to decamp to Michigan when Iowa blinked,Payne wrote.
• Tom Chaplin in BBC News
  We felt it would be nice just to be a gang and decamp to another city, somewhere that we liked the look of and seemed vibrant and exciting,explains singer Tom Chaplin.
• Max Mosley in Telegraph.co.uk
  Twenty years ago it would have been impossible. Ten years ago unlikely. But now it will be relatively straightforward for the teams to decamp,said Mosley. "There are countries with the capacity and a skilled labour force that you imagine...