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.