RESIGN


Meaning of RESIGN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ rɪzaɪn ]

( resigns, resigning, resigned)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

If you resign from a job or position, you formally announce that you are leaving it.

A hospital administrator has resigned over claims he lied to get the job...

Mr Robb resigned his position last month.

= quit

VERB : V , V n

2.

If you resign yourself to an unpleasant situation or fact, you accept it because you realize that you cannot change it.

Pat and I resigned ourselves to yet another summer without a boat...

= reconcile

VERB : V pron-refl to n / -ing

3.

see also resigned

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