resignation
See also: Resignation and résignation
English
Etymology
From Middle English resignacion, resignacioun, from Old French resignation, from Medieval Latin resignātiōnem, accusative of resignātio. Equivalent to resign + -ation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹɛzɪɡˈneɪʃən/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
resignation (countable and uncountable, plural resignations)
- The act of resigning.
- Jane offered her resignation to the board of directors, but they refused.
- 1978, Nixon, Richard, “The Presidency 1973-1974”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, LCCN 77-87793, OCLC 760525066, OL 7561812M, page 1064:
- I knew my Cabinet well, and despite Haig's reports that they were all holding firm I knew that there would be great pressure on them all, and great temptations, to make public demands for my resignation. That was something I had to prevent if I possibly could. I was determined not to appear to have resigned the presidency because of a consensus of staff or Cabinet opinion or because of public pressure from the people around me. For me and no less for the country, I believed that my resignation had to be seen as something that I had decided upon completely on my own.
- A written or oral declaration that one resigns.
- hand in one's resignation
- An uncomplaining acceptance of something undesirable but unavoidable.
- With resignation I acknowledged that after the accident I would not be able to ski again.
- (Scotland, law, historical) The form by which a vassal returns the feu into the hands of a superior.
Synonyms
- resignment
Translations
act of resigning
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declaration that one resigns
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state of uncomplaining acceptance
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Anagrams
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