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resign English

Meaning resign meaning

What does resign mean?
Definitions in simple English

resign Verb

— If someone resigns from a job, they quit it. He resigned his job when his fellow workers were attacked.

resign

— verb (= vacate) leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily She vacated the position when she got pregnant The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds — verb accept as inevitable He resigned himself to his fate — verb (= relinquish) part with a possession or right I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest resign a claim to the throne — verb (= leave office) give up or retire from a position The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month The chairman resigned over the financial scandal

Synonyms resign synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as resign?

resign English » English

quit give up renounce retire relinquish leave vacate submit abdicate abandon forgo yield surrender withdraw step down reconcile give in capitulate release leave office grant cede cease withdraw from secede pull out give way free forsake drop out consign assign accommodate abolish yield up walk out waive vouchsafe vary throw up throw in the towel throw away termination take one’s leave succumb stop working stop split up split settle

Topics resign topics

What do people use resign to talk about?
Work and occupation Work Method Work poorly

Give up
Social behavior Relationships Disunity

Set self apart
Social behavior Government

Ruler
Social behavior Social activity Come together, form a group Organization

Leave an organization

Conjugation resign conjugation

How do you conjugate resign?

resign · verb

Examples resign examples

How do I use resign in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The minister was obliged to resign from the Cabinet.
The president of the university is likely to resign.
The mayor will shortly announce his decision to resign.
I wish to resign from my work for purely personal reasons.
My boss was forced to resign.
The premier is likely to resign.
The minister had to resign.
There is no reason why he should resign.
There are rumors that he will resign.
There is a rumor about that he is going to resign.
We didn't need to ask him to resign.
He was forced to resign as prime minister.
They demanded that the mayor should resign.
She decided to resign.
The Prime Minister announced that he would resign within a few weeks.
The reason why he should resign his job is that he is not equal to it.
I could read between the lines that he wanted me to resign.
He was finally forced to resign.
They demanded that the president resign.
They demanded that President resign.
At the same time, the clerk Natsue Arimura told Gokijo of his intent to resign after this month.

Movie subtitles

Speaking for the board of directors, as well as for myself, if you insist in times like these on cutting the fees. of the board of directors, then we resign.
Speaking for Madame Colet, as well as for myself, resign.
I RESIGN.
He wanted me to tell you that if your name continues to be linked with a certain lady he will be forced to ask you to resign from the regiment.
You will resign all claim to Sergei because it would be my duty to remove him from your influence.
Most of us are planning to resign from the army form a private regiment and enlist for the Serbs against the Turks.
I resign.
This girl has been issued to me as part as my disguise. I resign.
Resign.
Imagine. Could I resign?
Imagine. whole Army would do this resign business.
I'II have to resign, Major.
What if you resign from your office at Baron Krog's works?
If that nation hasn't confidence in us the heads of the army, at this critical time, then I shall resign.
Oh, so you resign?
You'll let her resign?
The only way to resign from our profession is to die.
There's one way you can get it, option your stock to us and resign.
Well, I won't resign, now or ever.
I resign!
I hope you don't mean that I should resign.
The governors don't want you to resign.
Mr Taylor, a respected citizen, had brought the evidence against this man and we urged him to resign.
If you want to throw out Section 40, I'll resign.
I resign! I wash my hands of the whole business!
Baron. I resign!
I have a feeling it won't be so hard for me to resign now.
If I have to tell a lie, I will resign.
I'll resign.
Edward the Third, he bids you then resign your crown and kingdom, indirectly held from him, the native and true challenger.
I was just going to Wadner to resign.
Before dr. Wadner fires me, I wish to resign.
I want to resign anyway. Oh? Why?
When I tried to resign from the case, he had me locked in my room!
So you haul it down, what's left of it, and you resign yourself.
Will you resign if he does?
She didn't resign temporarily because of her nerves.

News and current affairs

Prostitution is illegal in most of the US, including Washington DC, and this could be one reason why Tobias had to resign.
Yet no one suggested that Corzine should resign because of his foolish and illegal act.
Two were forced to resign within a month of each other.
But why do ministers resign?
More interestingly still: why do some not resign although there seem to be compelling reasons for some to do so?
Ministers frequently resign because they find themselves involved in scandals, often connected in recent times with financing political parties.
What it says in Rumsfeld's case is that there may be no legal or constitutional obligation for a responsible minister to resign over the Iraqi abuse scandal; but once upon a time it would have been regarded as a matter of honor that he does resign.
But were it to resign itself to mere observer status in Lebanon, the UN and Europe would lose all credibility.
Having lost all support within his own party, Hatoyama had no choice but to resign.
In the last few weeks, attention has focused on whether Rumsfeld himself should resign or be fired.
Tensions increased dramatically when Mashal signed the unity agreement with Fatah, after stating his intention to resign as head of the political bureau.
When Malaysia's prime minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamed, recently announced that he intended to resign, Malaysians of Chinese descent joined Mahathir's Malay party loyalists in demanding that he reconsider.
Indeed, by alienating big business and letting his wily chief of staff, Alexander Voloshin, resign, Putin has deprived himself of crucial electoral resources.
When officials are accused or suspected of corruption, they do not quickly resign, as in Korea or Japan.
The regulators called his bluff and forced him to resign.
To join the inspectors, weapons experts are obliged to resign from their national postings, but few are ready to give up their careers to work in the UN bureaucracy.
But that was last month. Since then, the country's president, Christian Wulff, who was elected with Merkel's support, has been forced to resign, owing to mistakes he made as Minister President of Lower Saxony.
Fiat wallows in crisis; university rectors resign en mass; judges attend the opening session of the judicial year carrying copies of the constitution as a warning to the government.
Pay for the southern European countries or resign oneself to the end of the euro?
Small wonder, then, that Hatoyama advocated replacing Kan with Ozawa, even though Hatoyama insisted that Ozawa resign when he was forced from the premiership three months ago.
There is no reason to believe that Goodluck Jonathan will preemptively resign, and removing him from office if he assumes the presidency might well stoke unprecedented violence in the Delta.
It is, of course, an honorable act for a government to take responsibility for so grave a failing and resign.
Abbas cannot resign from his post for the foreseeable future, lest the Hamas-backed speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council take over.

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