RESIGN


Meaning of RESIGN in English

re ‧ sign W3 /rɪˈzaɪn/ BrE AmE verb [intransitive and transitive]

[ Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: resigner , from Latin resignare 'to unseal, cancel, give back' , from signare ; ⇨ ↑ sign 2 ]

1 . to officially announce that you have decided to leave your job or an organization ⇨ quit

resign from

She resigned from the government last week.

resign as

He resigned as Governor of Punjab in August.

resign your post/seat/position etc

Tom has since resigned his membership of the golf club.

2 . resign yourself to (doing) something to make yourself accept something that is bad but cannot be changed ⇨ resigned :

Josh resigned himself to the long walk home.

At sixteen, I resigned myself to the fact that I’d never be a dancer.

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COLLOCATIONS

■ nouns

▪ resign your post/position/office

He later resigned his post as Minister of Energy.

▪ resign your seat (=announce that you will no longer be a member of a parliament, be on a committee etc)

A majority of voters think he should resign his seat in Congress.

▪ resign the presidency

Richard Nixon resigned the presidency in 1974.

▪ resign your chairmanship

Mr Hunt announced that he has resigned his chairmanship of the committee.

▪ resign your membership

He recently resigned his membership of the National Rifle Association.

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THESAURUS

■ leave your job

▪ leave :

I left my last job because the salary was so low.

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Why don’t you just leave?

▪ quit to leave your job permanently because you are not happy with it:

After enduring months of harassment, Mrs Collins decided to quit her job.

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I’ve told them I’m quitting.

▪ resign to officially announce that you have decided to leave your job:

The company director was forced to resign over the scandal.

▪ hand in your notice/resignation to write an official letter to your employer saying that you are going to leave your job on a particular date:

You have to hand in your notice at least four weeks before you leave.

▪ retire to leave your job in order to stop working permanently, usually because you have reached the age when most people stop working:

After forty years of working for the bank, Karl retired in May.

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He had to retire because of ill health.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.