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Definition: RESIGNING |
RESIGNINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Resign |
Date "RESIGNING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Crosswords: RESIGNING |
| English words defined with "RESIGNING": resignation, Resignment. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "RESIGNING": Resign. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "RESIGNING": Resign. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And if we're wrong, we're resigning. Were we wrong (All the President's Men; writing credit: Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward) And if you want to talk about your oath of office, I'm here to tell you face to face, President Lyman, that you violated that oath when you stripped this country of its muscles -- when you deliberately played upon the fear and fatigue of the people and told them they could remove that fear by the stroke of a pen. And then when this nation rejected you, lost faith in you, and began militantly to oppose you, you violated that oath by not resigning from office and turning the country over to someone who could represent the people of the United States (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Bank note vignettes showing surrender of Gen. Burgoyne, George Washington resigning his commission, signing of a treaty, funeral of Indian with priest and Spanish soldiers in armor and weeping women. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Gen. Washington resigning his commission to Congress, Annapolis, Md., Dec. 23, 1783. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Washington resigning his commission. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Fiji | After resigning from the military, Rabuka became Prime Minister under the new constitution in 1993. (references) |
Human Rights | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Housing authorities responsible for implementing property law were threatened or intimidated into resigning. (references) |
Zimbabwe | The Constitution provides that they may be removed from the bench only for gross misconduct, and that they cannot be discharged or transferred for political reasons; however, during the year, judges were coerced or threatened by the Government into resigning. (references) | |
Political Rights | Ethiopia | The Government established a donor supported fund for opposition party candidates, provided opposition candidates access to state-owned electronic media, and changed the law to permit civil servants to run for office without first resigning their positions. (references) |
Worker Rights | Iraq | Compulsory labor is prohibited by law; however, the Penal Code mandates prison sentences, including compulsory labor, for civil servants and employees of state enterprises for breaches of labor "discipline," including resigning from a job. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "RESIGNING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 94.87% of the time. "RESIGNING" is used about 156 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 94.87% | 148 | 25,903 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.21% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.28% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.64% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 156 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
resigning | 22 |
letter resigning | 14 |
from job resigning | 12 |
job resigning | 5 |
letter resigning sample | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "RESIGNING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 辞职 (resign, Re-sign, resignation, resigned). (various references) | |
French | résignant, démissionnaire. (various references) | |
German | aufgebend (abandoning, capitulating, relinquishing, surrendering, waiving), abdankend. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 拝辞 (declining). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はいじ (declining). (various references) | |
Korean | 사직 (resignation). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | esigningray.(various references) | |
Romanian | demisionar (outgoing, resigner). (various references) | |
Turkish | istifa (demission, resignation, tender of resignation). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"RESIGNING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rejigging, reskinning, Rosignano. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "RESIGNING" (pronounced ruzī"ning, rēzī"ning , or rēsī"ning) |
| 6 | -u z ī" n i ng | designing, redesigning. |
| 4 | -ī" n i ng | aligning, assigning, brining, combining, confining, declining, defining, dining, divining, fining, lining, mining, opining, pining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, refining, shining, signing, twining, Vining, whining, wining. |
| 3 | -n i ng | apportioning, abstaining, abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, ascertaining, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, demeaning, Denning, detaining, determining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, reasoning, reawakening, reckoning, reconditioning, redlining, reexamining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shortening, shunning, sickening, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whitening, widening, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
| 5 | -z ī" n i ng | designing, redesigning. |
| 4 | -ī" n i ng | aligning, assigning, brining, combining, confining, declining, defining, dining, divining, fining, lining, mining, opining, pining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, refining, shining, signing, twining, Vining, whining, wining. |
| 3 | -n i ng | apportioning, abstaining, abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, ascertaining, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, demeaning, Denning, detaining, determining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, reasoning, reawakening, reckoning, reconditioning, redlining, reexamining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shortening, shunning, sickening, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whitening, widening, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
| 5 | -s ī" n i ng | assigning, reassigning, signing. |
| 4 | -ī" n i ng | aligning, brining, combining, confining, declining, defining, designing, dining, divining, fining, lining, mining, opining, pining, realigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, refining, shining, twining, Vining, whining, wining. |
| 3 | -n i ng | apportioning, abstaining, abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, ascertaining, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, demeaning, Denning, detaining, determining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, reasoning, reawakening, reckoning, reconditioning, redlining, reexamining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shortening, shunning, sickening, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whitening, widening, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-g-i-i-n-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: reigning, resining, singeing. | |
-2 letters: gingers, ginners, ginnier, ginseng, girning, insigne, reining, ringing, rinsing, seining, serging, sieging, signing, singing, snigger. | |
-3 letters: ensign, gieing, ginger, ginner, inners, reigns, renigs, renins, resign, rising, sering, signer, singer, sinner, siring. | |
-4 letters: genii, girns, grigs, grins, inner, iring, nines, nisei, reign, reins, renig, renin, resin, rings, rinse, risen, segni, sengi. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-g-i-i-n-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: energising, fingerings, sniggering, springeing. | |
+2 letters: fingerlings, reassigning, recognising, redesigning, reshingling, respringing, restringing. | |
+3 letters: engineerings, garnisheeing, generalising, gingerliness, ingatherings, misgoverning, overswinging, preassigning. | |
+4 letters: enregistering, forgivingness, overdesigning, presignifying, straightening. | |
+5 letters: antiaggression, countersigning, disintegrating, fingerpickings, gingerlinesses, predesignating. | |
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