to resign
533
3.7
- verb
- /rɪˈzaɪn/
- Formal
:
renunciar a
- The manager decided to resign from his position after the company was sold.
- resign from a job
- resign from a position
- resign as minister
Other weeks I'll resign from a board that I'm on.
- Other weeks I'll resign from a board that I'm on.
- And I think that it was right for him to resign in the face of that.
- I, I, I really think he will resign before his term is up.
- And I just said, I resigned, I quit.
- So do you have any thoughts on Sheryl Sandberg resigning and and all that good stuff?
- But then all of the police officers in his unit resigned in solidarity.
- So in a few days, von Kuhlmann will resign as foreign minister.
- Who is going to resign over these failures, Colonel?
- A few of its pacifists did resign, like Ramsay McDonald, but most stayed on.
- And I, are you asking me to resign right now?
- Unlike Call Me, who I got to point out did not resign, he was fired.
- They had to, they they got tainted and they had to resign.
- And he got caught with prostitutes and had to resign.
- So if you're doing a terrible job, you're supposed to resign.
- The entire board of this company resigned.
Examples
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So in a few days, von Kuhlmann will resign as foreign minister.
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Student demonstrations occurred in Mexico, and Charles de Gaulle resigned following student protests in France.
Academic text (2008) -
And I think that it was right for him to resign in the face of that.
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Is he now going to do the decent thing and resign, Prime Minister?
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I asked for his permission to resign as Dean, join an order.
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He will be forced to resign or they will fire him within days.
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If the Prime Minister will not accept that he must resign, then the Tory benches must act.
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Fletcher Coal, the President's Chief of Staff, has resigned.
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President Nixon, himself a lawyer, resigned the presidency to avoid impeachment.
Academic text (2017) -
However, within a few days, Benhabiles resigned from the interim presidency, thereby creating a political vacuum.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To go away from a place, person, or group
788
1.2
To leave a job or position
363
2.3
To hand a job or control you have to someone else
176
1.3
To leave a place to start a journey
148
3.3
Give up an important job so someone else can take over
123
5.1
To stop doing a job, duty or action after someone tells you to
69
6.3
To give up a right, belief, job, or position officially
53
4.2
Stop being a leader with official power, for example a government official or company boss
52
4.5
Leave a place or job so it is free for someone else
20
4.9
To stop doing a job or role politely
6
2.5
To stop working at a job because you want something different
To stop working in your job, especially as an athlete
To stop working after a long time
How Removed
31
7.4
80
6.2
19
6.2
70
3.3
- Formal
533
3.7
148
3.3
Surface Forms
Etymology
Resign comes from the Latin resignare, made of re- 'back' and signare 'to mark', and originally meant 'release' or 'give back'. So to resign from a job is to officially give back your position.