Meaning of resign in English

resign

verb [ I or T ]

/rɪˈzaɪn/ us

/rɪˈzaɪn/

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to give up a job or position by telling your employer that you are leaving:

He resigned from the company in order to take a more challenging job.

She resigned as director.

She resigned the directorship.

In the game of chess, you resign when you cannot see any way to avoid being beaten:

Timman resigned a hopeless position.

After she had taken my rook, there was nothing I could really do except resign.

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It's only a matter of time before he's forced to resign.
As the company's financial problems worsened, several directors resigned.
He resigned from a high-profile job as economic adviser to the prime minister.
The statement excited new speculation that a senior minister may be about to resign.
In a television interview last night she denied she had any intention of resigning.

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be resigned to something

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resign yourself to something

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resign

verb [ I/T ]

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to give up a job or position:

[ I ] He resigned from the committee.

Phrasal verb

resign yourself to something

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resign

verb [ I or T ]

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HR, WORKPLACE

to say that you have decided to leave your job:

The prime minister announced that she will resign after the next election.

resign as sth He resigned as policy director to become deputy chief of staff.

resign from sth After the scandal, he was forced to resign from his government post.

resign over sth He has no intention of resigning over the issue.

resign your job/position/post She will resign her position as CEO of the company at the end of the year.

be asked to/forced to resign The previous director had just been forced to resign.

threaten to resign

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resign yourself to sth/be resigned to sth

to make yourself accept something that you do not like because you cannot change it:

While he's still a partner, he's resigned to writing off his investment.

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Examples of resign

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He resigned in 1925, however, because he suppor ted student demonstrations against an increase in the price of train tickets.

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She resigned herself to adoption and also resigned from her university course.

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There is also the specific case in which authors may have resigned from the author society, so specific agreements have to be found with them.

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She composed herself, made a will, and resigned herself to death.

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As both resigned after the 1956 exhibition, however, her study stops short of an analysis of the manager ial cr isis of 1957.

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Four types of response to current levels of friendship are identified : contented, dissatisfied, needy and resigned.

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Indeed, duplicity was basic to the whole culture of containment as a nation which honored its informers seemed resigned to its dissemblers.

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Many members (including me) felt repudiated and soon resigned.

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Consequently, they resigned in protest129 and campaigned for the boycott of the elections.

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In 1997 the organisation was further weakened when eleven prominent members resigned from the executive, following many other women who had already left.

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Two interviews were carried out with members who had recently resigned, but had served on the committee for a very long period of time.

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Enrile resigned and was immediately replaced by his deputy.

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Since people were uneducated, they had been left behind by technological change and had become unattached, but they were also apathetic, resigned, and potentially violent.

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He has resigned from government positions at least twice to protest what he saw as government misdeeds.

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The inference drawn upon a material deficiency, carries with it a resigned or fatalist humiliation.

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辭職, 辭去（職務）, 放棄（工作）…

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