"leave late" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase when talking about someone leaving a place later than expected or planned. For example, "We had to leave late because of the traffic."
Some people want to leave late.
As the players dressed, word filtered around the clubhouse that their chartered airplane would leave late.
The Heat was to leave late tonight for a game Monday night in Philadelphia.
"But the staff and the players show up early and leave late.
AIG is known as an intense meritocracy, filled with people who come in early and leave late.
Friends and former colleagues say he would arrive early and leave late, in a Cadillac Escalade, spending hours betting on dog races and horse races and playing bingo.
I'll leave late-night eating and drinking to the young and the brave… and, let's be honest, the committedly blokey.
Comedy Central's appointment of Noah, though refreshing, does little to dispel the enduring notion that women should be happy with the daytime gigs (The View, for example), and leave late-night TV to the boys.
He will leave late next week for Zambia, where he will help refurbish a clinic, and then head to Tanzania, where his wife, Laura Bush, is organizing a forum for African first ladies.
Expectations have risen among senior Goldman executives and board members that Mr Blankfein is planning to leave late this year or early in 2019, The Wall Street Journal said.
Husar went on personal leave late last month, saying she felt it best to take her family out of the spotlight, announcing via a statement she had asked the Australian federal police to look into threats made against her.
