Resign

Definitions: Resign

Resign

Verb

1. Leave voluntarily; of a job, post or position; "She vacated the position when she got pregnant".

2. Accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "resign" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Satire

Dream Interpretation

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Synonyms: Resign

Death

Verb: die, expire, perish; meet one's death, meet one's end; pass away, be taken; yield one's breath, resign one's breath; resign one's being, resign one's life; end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly career; breathe one's last; cease to live, cease to breathe; depart this life; be no more. Adjective: go off, drop off, pop off; lose one's life, lay down one's life, relinquish one's life, surrender one's life; drop into the grave, sink into the grave; close one's eyes; fall dead, drop dead, fall down dead, drop down dead; break one's neck; give up the ghost, yield up the ghost; be all over with one.

Excitability

Tolerate, suffer, stand, bide; abide, aby; bear with, put up with, take up with, abide with; acquiesce; submit; (yield); submit with a good grace; resign oneself to, reconcile oneself to; brook, digest, eat, swallow, pocket, stomach.

Hopelessness

Abandon; resign, surrender, submit.

Relinquishment

Verb: relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip; spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate, give away, dispose of, part with; lay aside, lay apart, lay down, lay on the shelf; (disuse); set aside, put aside, put away; make away with, cast behind; maroon.

Verb: relinquish, give up, abandon, desert, forsake, leave in the lurch; go back on; depart from, secede from, withdraw from; back out of; leave, quit, take leave of, bid a long farewell; vacate; (resign).

Resignation

Verb: resign; give up, throw up; lay down, throw up the cards, wash one's hands of, abjure, renounce, forego, disclaim, retract; deny.

Submission

Verb: succumb, submit, yeild, bend, resign, defer to.

Pocket the affront; make the best of, make a virtue of necessity; grin and abide, grin and bear it, shrug the shoulders, resign oneself; submit with a good grace; (bear with).

Crosswords: Resign

Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

The only way to resign from our profession is to die. (Mata Hari; writing credit: Benjamin Glazer ; Leo Birinsky)

My life is my own. I resign! (The Prisoner; writing credit: Dennis Marks)

You must resign yourself to being extraordinary. (The Last Time I Committed Suicide; writing credit: Neal Cassady; Stephen T. Kay)

That's why you'd never resign from this prison. (Brute Force; writing credit: Richard Brooks; Robert Patterson)

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Books

• Getting Fired: What to Do If You're Fired, Downsized, Laid Off, Restructured, Discharged, Terminated, or Forced to Resign (reference)

• Pastoral Politics: Why Preachers Resign (reference)

• Why counsellors resign; a report (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Resign To Ideal (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Want us to resign, eh? can't the people take a joke?.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Where-ever therefore any number of men are so united into one society, as to quit every one his executive power of the law of nature, and to resign it to the public, there and there only is a political, or civil society. (Second Treatise of Government)

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They must resign themselves to famine.

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Civil Liberties

Jordan

The Government denied any involvement in Anani's decision to resign. (references)

Jordan

Two university presidents were pressured to resign for their political views during the year. (references)

Jordan

In July Senator Jawad Anani claimed that he was forced to resign following his publication of an article that criticized the Government. (references)

Discrimination

Zambia

These amendments also prohibit traditional chiefs, who are accorded authority and privileges as chiefs, from running for political office unless they resign their chieftainships. (references)

Economic History

Japan

The shogunate was forced to resign, and the emperor was restored to power. (references)

Bulgaria

The Council must resign if the National Assembly passes a vote of no confidence in the Council or Prime Minister. (references)

Human Rights

India

The All Manipur Students Union (AMSU) called on all 60 members of the state legislature to resign. (references)

India

Some of the detainees allegedly were tortured by police, and the teachers reportedly were ordered to resign from their jobs. (references)

Argentina

The assailants ordered Lucero and Romero out of their car, put guns to their heads and told them to resign from the Buenos Aires provincial police. (references)

Minorities

Kuwait

In 1993 the Government decreed that bidoon males no longer would be allowed to serve in the military; however, in July the Minister of Defense suspended action to force bidoon to resign from the Army. (references)

Solomon Islands

On June 5, 2000, Malaitan militants took over the capital of Honiara (which is largely populated by Malaitans), forced the Prime Minister to resign, forced Parliament to choose another Prime Minister, and precipitated a brief period of ethnic warfare. (references)

Political Economy

Bangladesh

He was forced to resign in December 1990, following months of popular demonstrations. (references)

Political Rights

Pakistan

Several newspapers stated that President Rafiq Tarar was forced to resign from office. (references)

Solomon Islands

After the takeover, the Malaitan militants forced Prime Minister Bartholomew Ulufa'alu to resign. (references)

Mauritania

Security forces avoided involvement in politics during the year; by law members of the military must resign if they wish to participate in partisan politics. (references)

Women

Oman

However, many educated women still face job discrimination because prospective employers fear that they might resign to marry or raise families. (references)

Ghana

In December 2000, this group, known as Sisters Keepers, marched peacefully to the Castle and submitted a petition to the President calling for the Minister of Interior and the IGP to resign because of their failure to solve the murders. (references)

Worker Rights

Japan

The two officials were forced to resign their positions, but were not prosecuted. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "resign": resign office ♦ resign one's office ♦ resign oneself ♦ resign oneself to ♦ resign oneself to sleep ♦ resign oneself to smth. ♦ resign smth. to smb.. Additional references.

Afrikaan

bedank (abdicate, quit, refuse, reject, thank), aftree (abdicate, quit, retire), afsien (abandon, give, give up, renounce), abdikeer (abdicate). (various references)

Albanian

lë (allow, break off, chuck, cut, drop, dump, give up, grant, jilt, jump, leave, let, let by, Miss, omit, overjump, overleap, Park, pass up, permit, put, quit, release, relinquish, tek pupa, vacate, yield), heq dorë (abdicate, cede, chuck, depart, drop it, give oneself up to, give up, kick, let up, release, remise, tek pupa), abdikoj (abdicate, demise, deny, disavow, disclaim). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تخلى (abandon, assign, cast aside, cede, desist, disgorge, expose, forsake, give up, go back on, hand over, leave, let down, part, quit, release, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, retreat, shake, shrift, sign away, slough, swear off, throw over, turn one's back on, vacate, waive, walk out on, yield), ‏ترك (break, cast aside, discontinue, ditch, drop, drop it, drop out, lay aside, leave, leave about, let go, neglect, peg, quit, rap, resignation, sign away, strand, suffer, unhand), ‏سلم (accept, admit, agree, allow, commit, consign, deliver, give in, grant, hand over, hierarchy, ladder, postulate, presume, recognize, render, rung, salaam, salute, scale, secure, stair, staircase, stairway, submit, transmit, turn in, turn over), ‏عهد ب, ‏إستقال (chuck, demit, go on pension, quit), ‏إستسلم (capitulate, cave, give in, give up, give way to, hands up, lay down, submit, succumb, surrender, throw in one's hand), ‏إعتزل (keep oneself to oneself, renounce, retire, retreat). (various references)

Bulgarian 

снемам от себе си, оставям (abandon, confide, desert, drop off, leave, leave behind, let, put, put down, quit, repudiate, vacate), отказвам се (backtrack, cede, draw back, forego, forgo, forsake, pack up, release), предоставям (leave, submit), предавам се (capitulate, descend, fall, give in, give oneself, give way to, lend, say uncle, strike, surrender), предавам (carry, convey, deliver, denounce, get through, give, give in, give over, give up, hand in, hand over, impart, pass along, pass in, pass round, put out, render, reproduce, sell down the river, sell out, send, send on, send out, submit, transfuse, turn over, yield), примирявам се (accept, acquiesce, be reconciled, put up with), подавам оставка (go out). (various references)

Chinese 

辞职 (Re-sign, resignation, resigned, Resigning), 辭職 , 辭 (bid farewell, decline, diction, say goodbye, take leave). (various references)

Czech

rezignovat, vzdát se funkce, ponechat (reserve), podrobit se (bend, comply, knuckle under, obey, submit), odstoupit (abdicate, back down, cede, stand back, step aside), oddat se (addict, surrender). (various references)

Danish

nedlaegge sit mandat (to resign one's seat). (various references)

Dutch

bedanken (abdicate, quit, thank, withdraw one's name, withdraw one's subscription), afstand doen (abdicate). (various references)

Esperanto

rezigni (abandon, give up, renounce), eksiĝi (quit), demisii, abdiki (abdicate). (various references)

Faeroese

lata sær lynda (abandon, cede, give in, give up, give way, relinquish, renounce, yield), fara frá (abandon, abdicate, desert, forsake, leave, quit). (various references)

Farsi 

مستعفی شدن , کناره گرفتن , تفویض کردن (Abdicate, Devolve, Lodge, Vouchsafe), استعفادادن از, دست کشیدن (Cease, Desist). (various references)

Finnish

alistua (abandon, give up, reconcile oneself, renounce, resign oneself, submit, yield). (various references)

French

abdiquer (relinquish). (various references)

Frisian

ôfgean (abdicate, quit). (various references)

German

verzichten (abandon, abdicate, abstain, do without, forgo, give up, make sacrifices, refuse, relinquish, renounce, sign away, to renounce, waive), zurücktreten (abdicate, back out, come second, decline, diminish, fade, fall back, go down, kick back, recede, rescind, retrogress, step back, step down, subside, to recede, to rescind, to retire, to retrogress, to step back, withdraw), aufgeben (abandon, check in, cry uncle, discontinue, dispatch, drop, forsake, give in, give up, jack in, jettison, lay aside, lay away, mail, part with, place, post, quit, register, relinquish, renounce, say uncle, serve, set, submit, surrender, to abdicate, to capitulate, to dismiss, to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, vacate, withdraw, yield), abdanken (abdicate, discharge, dismiss, fire, quit, sack, to abdicate). (various references)

Greek 

παραιτούμαι (abdicate, abnegate, desist, disclaim, forgo, give up, go without, leave, quit, relinquish, relinquish to, resign from, waive). (various references)

Hawaiian

abdikoj (abdicate). (various references)

Hebrew 

לותר (cede, concede, forgo, give ground, give in, give up, pass up, relinquish, renounce, surrender, throw up), ל�"תפטר (get rid of, quit, step down), ל�"כ� ע (buckle under, capitulate, give in, give up, give way to, knuckle under, submit, succumb, surrender, throw in ones hand, yield), לצאת ב�"ימוס. (various references)

Hungarian

lemond (abandon, abdicate, back down, demit, denounce, disclaim, forgo, give up, renounce, to abdicate, to call off, to disclaim, to discontinue, to eschew, to renounce, to resign, to surrender, to throw up, to waive). (various references)

Indonesian

meletakkan (put), berhenti (cease, desist, pause, quit, stop). (various references)

Italian

rinunciare (abdicate, disclaim, give up, relinquish, renounce, resign oneself, waive), licenziarsi (retire, say goodbye), lasciare (abandon, allow, desertion, evacuate, forsake, keep, leave, leave behind, leaving, let, lets, loose, quit, release, relinquish, slack, to assume), firmare di nuovo, dimettersi (quit), dimettere (discharge, dismiss), dare le dimissioni, consegnare (commit, consign, deliver, entrust, hand, hand over, intrust, leave, present, surrender), abbandonare (abandon, abdicate, bolt, desert, discard, dismiss, dump, fail, forsake, give up, leave, leave behind, let oneself go, quit, register, relinquish, renounce, Slough, surrender). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

辞職�'迫る (to urge to resign), 辞す (to leave post, to resign), 辞意 (intention to resign), 職�'退く (to resign from one's post), 運�'天に任せる (to leave to chance, to resign oneself to one's fate), 肩たたき (request to resign, tap on the shoulder), 思い切る (to despair, to resign to fate), 止す (to abolish, to cease, to give up, to resign), 止める (to cease, to end, to put an end to, to resign, to stop), 捨てる　 (to cast aside, to resign, to throw away), 捨てる (to abandon, to cast aside, to resign, to throw away), 仕�'致す (to resign). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すてる (to abandon, to cast aside, to resign, to throw away), おもいきる (to despair, to resign to fate), しょく�'しりぞく (to resign from one's post), し�'いたす (to resign), う�"�'て�"にまかせる (to leave to chance, to resign oneself to one's fate), かたたたき (request to resign, shoulder massage, tap on the shoulder, tapping), やめる (to cease, to end, to resign, to retire, to stop), よす (to abolish, to cease, to give up, to resign), じす (to leave post, to resign), じしょく�'せまる (to urge to resign), じい (court physician, demonstration, dictionary, intention to resign, masturbation, second place, second rank, self consolation, show of force). (various references)

Korean 

사직하십시�" (Re-sign). (various references)

Manx

irree ass (abdicate, cry off, emanate, relinquish, resignation, retire). (various references)

Papiamen

abdiká (abdicate). (various references)

Pig Latin

esignray

Portuguese

resignar (abandon, abdicate, give up, relinquish, renounce). (various references)

Romanian

renunţa la (abandon, abdicate, abnegate, back down, cast aside, chuck up, declare off, deny, disclaim, doff, drop, forgo, forsake, give over, lay down, part with, remise, renounce, sacrifice, shunt, sink, spare, surrender, throw up, yield up), demisiona (demit, go out, resign office, take one's name off the books), ceda (assign, bend, cave in, cede, come to terms, comply, concede, convey, defer, deliver over, deliver up, demise, give, give way, go, knock under, knuckle under, lower one's colour, release, renounce, slack, spare, submit, surrender, yield), abdica (abdicate, retire), abandona (abandon, break off an engagement, deliver up, desert, desolate, drop, expose, forsake, leave, part with, quit, relent, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, shelve, spare, throw), a-şi da din nou semnãtura, a-şi da demisia (send in one's papers, vacate one's seat). (various references)

Russian 

вновь подписывать (re-sign), отставка (demission, resignation, retirement), отказываться (abdicate, abjure, abnegate, decline, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, fail to, forgo, forsake, forsaken, forsook, recede, refuse, refused, reject, renounce, repudiate, waive, waived). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

povući se sa položaja, pomiriti se (be reconciled, resign oneself), ostavka (resignation), istupiti (come out, drop out), dati ostavku. (various references)

Spanish

dimitir (abdicate, quit), hacer dimisión (abdicate, quit), darse de baja (abdicate, drop out, quit), abdicar (abdicate). (various references)

Swedish

försaka (deny oneself, forego, forgo, give up), avstå (abstain, cede, desist, give up, refrain, relinquish), avsäga (give up), avgå (be deducted, be sent off, depart, draw out, evaporate, go, leave, retire, sail, start). (various references)

Turkish

vazgeçmek (abandon, back down, back down from, back out, back out of, back track, backtrack, be off, beat a retreat, cease, cede, change one's mind, cry off, cut loose, declare off, desist, disclaim, dispense with, do without, drop the reins, forbear, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, jack in, kick, leave, leave off, opt out, quit, recant, recede, relinquish, remit, renounce, retract, sink, Stow, surrender, swerve, throw over, throw up, turn about, turn around, turn up, unlearn, waive, wangle, wangle out of), teslim olmak (capitulate, give in, give oneself up, knuckle down, knuckle under, lay down arms, lay down one's arms, resign oneself to, surrender), teslim etmek (cede, commit, confide, consign, deliver, deliver up, give in, give up, hand in, hand over, own, submit, surrender, turn in, turn over, yield up), kendini vermek (abandon oneself, apply oneself, be caught up in, give oneself over, give way, pore over, settle down to, steep oneself in), istifasını vermek (submit one's resignation, tender one's resignation), istifa etmek (demit, give up, go out, quit, resign one's office, step aside, step down, submit one's resignation, tender one's resignation, vacate), emanet etmek (bail, commend, commit, confide, consign, deposit, entrust, trust, trust smb. with smth.), bırakmak (abandon, allow, break oneself of a habit, chuck, consign, demise, discontinue, dismiss, dispose of, drop, drop in, drop out, edge out, expose, fail, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, grow, hand down, jack in, jilt, kick, lay down, lay off, leave, leave off, let, let go, let smb. have it, offload, outgrow, plant, put, put away, put off, put to, quit, release, release one's hold, relinquish, renounce, revolt from, stop, surrender, take one's farewell of, throw over, unclasp, unlearn, unloose, walk out), çekilmek (abdicate, be pulled, bolt, bow, bow out, decline, desist, draw away, draw back, draw off, dry up, ebb, edge out, give over, go out, gravitate, opt out, quit, recede, repair, retire, retract, scratch, secede, stand, step aside, step down, walk out, withdraw), çökmek (abandon, bend, cave, cave in, collapse, come down, cower, crack, crack up, crouch, crumple, crumple up, decline, descend, dip, fall down, fall in, fold, fold up, founder, give up, give way, gravitate, renounce, sag, settle, sink, slump, slump down, squat, subside). (various references)

Ukranian 

відмовлятися від посади (demit), зрікатися (abdicate, abjure, abnegate, deny, disclaim, forswear, recant, renege, renegue, renounce, repudiate), знову підписувати. (various references)

Welsh

ymddiswyddo, ymddeol (abdicate, retire, retired). (various references)

abdicamus, abdicare, abire, despondere, resignare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "resign": resignation, resignations, resigned, resignedly, resignedness, resignednesses, resigner, resigners, resigning, resigns. (additional references)

Words containing "resign": presignified, presignifies, presignify, presignifying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Resign" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rasion, reigen, reigh, reighn, reigin, reigm, Remigo, resang, Resegh, resewn, resi, resige, resignal, Resina, resine, resing, resion, Resmin, resne, resoge, reson, respin, ressg, resyn, rezag, rezin, Rezzag, Ronsingon, rosig, Rotsagno, tredisgn. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: reigns, renigs, sering, signer, singer.

-1 letter: girns, grins, reign, reins, renig, resin, rings, rinse, risen, segni, sengi, serin, singe, siren.

-2 letters: egis, engs, ergs, erns, gens, gien, gies, gins, girn, grin, ires, regs, rein, reis, rigs, ring, rins, rise, sign, sine, sing, sire.

-3 letters: eng, ens, erg, ern, ers, gen, gie, gin, ins, ire, reg, rei, res, rig, rin.

+1 letter: bingers, cringes, dingers, earings, engirds, erasing, eringos, fingers, fringes, gainers, gingers, ginners, greisen, hingers, ignores, ingress, lingers, niggers, pingers, reagins, regains, reginas, regions, resigns, resting, reusing, ringers, searing, serging, seringa, serving, signers, signore, singers, slinger, snigger, springe, stinger, swinger, syringe, versing, wingers, zingers.

+2 letters: aginners, aligners, anergias, anergies, angaries, angriest, arginase, assigner, astringe, bearings, brewings, bringers, clingers, coreigns, cosigner, creasing, cresting, cringers, cringles, deraigns, designer, desiring, dressing, earnings, earrings, energids, energies, energise, engrails, engrains, ensuring, eringoes, erlkings, feigners, flingers, freshing, ganister, gantries, gearings, generics, genitors, gentries, gesneria, gherkins, gitterns, goriness, gradines, grainers, granites, grannies, greasing, greenies, greenish, greisens, gremlins, grimness, grinches, grinders, grinners, gunfires, hearings, hearsing, herrings, igniters, ignorers, impregns, ingrates, integers, jinglers, minglers, nargiles, negroids, negronis, nervings, nigglers, organise, perigons, perusing, pressing, rangiest, readings, realigns, reassign, rebegins, recusing, redesign, redwings, reedings, reesting, refusing, regimens, regrinds, rehinges, remising, reposing, rerising, resawing, resaying, rescuing, reseeing, resewing, residing, resigned, resigner, resiling, resining, resiting, resizing, resoling, resowing, respring, restring, resuming, revising, riesling, ringlets, ringside, sabering, screwing, securing, seigneur, seignior, seignory, sergings, seringas, serrying, servings, severing, sewering, shearing, sheering, shingler, shrewing, signaler, slangier, slingers, smearing, smerking, snaggier, sneering, sniggers, sniggler, sobering, spearing, speering, speiring, sphering, spiering, spongier, springed, springer, springes, steering, sterling, stingers, stingier, strewing, stringed, stringer, supering, swearing, swerving, swingers, swingier, synergia, synergic, synergid, syringed, syringes, tinglers, trigness, ushering, vinegars, wresting, wringers.

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