Resign

Verb

 * 1)  To give up or hand over (something to someone); to relinquish ownership of.
 * 2) * 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.39:
 * And if the perfection of well-speaking might bring any glorie sutable unto a great personage, Scipio and Lelius would never have resigned the honour of their Comedies [...] unto an Affrican servant [...].
 * 1)  To quit (a job or position).
 * I am resigning in protest of the unfair treatment of our employees.
 * He resigned the crown to follow his heart.
 * 1)  To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable.
 * After fighting for so long, she finally resigned to her death.
 * He had no choice but to resign the game and let his opponent become the champion.
 * 1) * 1996, Robin Buss, The Count of Monte Cristo, translation of, Alexandre Dumas, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 2003 Penguin edition, ISBN 0140449264, page 394 :
 * Here is a man who was resigned to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold and about to die like a coward, that's true, but at least he was about to die without resisting and without recrimination. Do you know what gave him that much strength? Do you know what consoled him? Do you know what resigned him to his fate?

Synonyms

 * quit

Derived terms

 * resignation
 * resign oneself

Adverbs for Resign
reluctantly; voluntarily; nominally; officially; cheerfully; piously; fatalistically; irrevocably; philosophically; wearily.

Thesaurus
abandon, abdicate, abjure, accede, accept, acknowledge defeat, acquiesce, assent, be agreeable, be pensioned, be superannuated, cease, cede, circulate, come across with, come off, comply, consent, cry quits, cut out, deliver, deliver over, demit, desist, desist from, discontinue, disgorge, dispense with, dispose of, distribute, disuse, do without, drop, dump, face the music, forgo, fork over, forsake, forswear, forward, get along without, get rid of, give away, give in, give notice, give out, give over, give up, go, go along with, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, have done with, kiss good-bye, knock under, knuckle down, knuckle under, lay down, leave, leave off, let go, live with it, make a sacrifice, nol-pros, not pursue with, not resist, obey, part with, pass, pass out, pass over, pension off, put behind one, quit, quitclaim, reach, recant, release, relent, relinquish, render, render up, renounce, renounce the throne, retire, retire from office, retract, sacrifice, spare, stand aside, stand down, step aside, stop, submit, succumb, superannuate, surrender, swallow it, swallow the pill, swear off, take, take it, terminate, throw up, transfer, turn over, turn up, vacate, waive, withdraw from, yield

Etymology 1
From reisgner:,  resigner:, and its source,  resignare:, from re-: + signare:.

Etymology 2
re-: + sign:

Verb

 * Arabic: (istaqaala)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 辭職, 辞职,  ,
 * Dutch: ontslag nemen
 * Esperanto: rezigni
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: უარის თქმა
 * German: ,
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 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 辞職する,
 * Korean: 사임하다 (saimhada)
 * Malay: meletak jawatan
 * Portuguese: demitir-se
 * Russian: отказываться должность,  уходить в отставку,  бросить работу, увольняться, уволиться
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
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Anagrams

 * reigns
 * signer
 * singer