Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who resigns.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who resigns.

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  • noun Someone who resigns.

Etymologies

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resign +‎ -er

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Examples

  • As one of the grinning presenters in question is our own Piers Morgan resigner from editing the Daily Mirror over fake photos, author of "diaries" that some reviewers guessed were largely penned years later, this may not be the wisest of slogans.

    Media Monkey's Diary 2011

  • As one of the grinning presenters in question is our own Piers Morgan resigner from editing the Daily Mirror over fake photos, author of "diaries" that some reviewers guessed were largely penned years later, this may not be the wisest of slogans.

    Media Monkey's Diary 2011

  • But Palin's decision disappointed a lot of her supporters and even casual observers (my 9-year old daughter, rather out-of-the-blue, said "I didn't think she was a quitter, or a resigner").

    David Epstein: Palin Proves Voters Were Right in 2008 2009

  • The only resignation in the wake of a Plaid/Labour Coalition will be serial resigner, Deputy Minister Huw Lewis.

    Big Guns join 'Gang of Four' Glyn Davies 2007

  • Ce qui est vraiment insupportable ce sont les separations, et j'ai bien de la peine a m'y resigner, et je ne m'y resignerais pas du tout si la peinture rapportait.

    Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896

  • Nous savons, Monsieur, que vous peserez plus murement et plus sagement que nous la consequence qu'aurait pour l'avenir une interruption complete dans les etudes de vos deux filles; vous deciderez ce qu'il faut faire, et vous nous pardonnerez notre franchise, si vous daignez considerer que le motif qui nous fait agir est une affection bien desinteressee et qui s'affligerait beaucoup de devoir deja se resigner a n'etre plus utile

    Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • She has been an outspoken self publicist and seriial resigner throughout her political life - how on earth she ever got within a million miles of the Cabinet is beyond me

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • She has been an outspoken self publicist and seriial resigner throughout her political life - how on earth she ever got within a million miles of the Cabinet is beyond me

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • He is not a fist shaker or a table thumper or, God forbid, a resigner.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • + Check if file is already listed so no duplicate items (determined by file location) + Begun to write for resigner (very little but its a start)

    Xbox-Scene News 2010

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