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noun
- an act or instance of running off secretly, as to be married.
- an act or instance of leaving a safe area or safe premises, done by a person with a mental disorder or cognitive impairment: Parents of autistic children need strategies to cope with elopement.See also wandering(def 6).
1540s, from elope + -ment. (The word was in Anglo-French in 14c.).