resign

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Under pressure from the government, he was forced to resign from the National Museum where he'd worked since 1976.

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  1. transitive verb To submit (oneself) passively; accept as inevitable: I resigned myself to a long wait in line.
  2. transitive verb To give up (a position, for example), especially by formal notification.
  3. transitive verb To relinquish (a privilege, right, or claim). See Synonyms at relinquish.
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  • I don't really think what he did was bad enough for him to resign, as it happens all the time to people, and increasingly to politicians! —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • Mr. Ashraf Ghani (Ex-Finance Minister) and Mr. Muhammad Amin Farhang (Ex-Trade Minister) both were forced to resign, the first by President Karzai†™ s behavior and the second by the Parliament. —  - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community
  • The cabinet is not obliged to give heed to an adverse vote in the Lords; but when any of the four votes indicated is carried in the lower chamber the premier and his colleagues must do one of two things--resign or appeal to the country. —  The Governments of Europe
  • As minister he must therefore either resign--a difficult thing in the sixteenth century--or carry out the King's policy. —  Henry VIII.
  • The chancellor would know that the applicant was not really trying to resign, and didn't want to resign, but was merely trying in this left-handed way to get a vacation The night before the Emperor's dinner I helped Smith take his exercise, after midnight, and he was full of his project. —  Chapters from My Autobiography
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English resignen, from Old French resigner, from Latin resignāre, to unseal : re-, re- + signāre, to seal (from signum, mark, seal; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Middle English resignen, resynen, from Old French resiner, resigner, French résigner (later Greek resignieren =Danish resignere =Swedish resignera) =Provencal Spanish Portuguese resignar =Italian risegnare, rassegnare, from Latin resignare, unseal, annul, assign back, resign, literally ‘sign back or again,’ from re-, back,+ s ignare, sign: see sign.
  2. from resign, v.
  3. from re- + sign.
 

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