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resigned

resigned

4.3
Having left a job after giving notice to your boss
  • adjective
  • /rɪˈzaɪnd/
translation icon : renunció
  • The mayor announced that he had resigned after the scandal, effective immediately.

Examples

  • Sean Spicer resigned as White House press secretary.

  • OK, so if tomorrow Elon Musk resigned from Tesla, Tony do Twitter, what happens to Tesla?

  • Speaker, I have resigned and there will soon be a successor.

  • John left the cabinet and resigned his his position in protest of the Vietnam War.

  • He was a bit of a drunk in those years, and he resigned from the Army.

  • So I walked into the director's office and quit, resigned from the agency, didn't retire, resigned.

  • All we know so far is that the Miss USA, Noel Lavoit, she resigned in a letter and the letter was reported.

  • Because last night, Nielsen resigned as Trump's Homeland Security secretary, I believe.

  • OK, so if tomorrow Elon Musk resigned from Tesla, Tony do Twitter, what happens to Tesla?

  • In the last three days, even after Liz Trust resigned, we've seen the Treasury yield only trend up.

Antonyms

employed
1.0

Having a paid job

How Voluntary

retired
5 1.1
resigned
4.3
fired
2.2

Surface Forms

resigned positive

Morphology

resigned = resign (transparent) = resign + ed

A standard past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'resign' meaning 'to leave a job'; the adjectival meaning 'having left a job' is directly derived.

Etymology

Resigned comes from the verb resign, which originally meant 'to give up a right or office' and is the same root as resignation (your letter to leave). So, a resigned person in this sense has formally given up their job or position.