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UK
/ɹɪzɪɡnˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /ˌɹɛzəɡˈneɪʃən, ˌɹɛzɪɡˈneɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɹɛzəɡˈneɪʃən, ˌɹɛzɪɡˈneɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.)
- acceptance of despair
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a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign
he submitted his resignation as of next month
How To Use resignation In A Sentence
- A few weeks before the vote on November 7, the buzz goes, Cheney will announce his resignation, ostensibly because of signs of new trouble with his ticker.
- The governor refused to accept Cox's resignation .
- With Maugham it is a kind of stoical resignation, the stiff upper lip of the pukka sahib somewhere east of Suez, carrying on with his job without believing in it, like an Antonine Emperor. Inside the Whale
- The actress is frequently locked into playing a stoic, good-natured sufferer with a look of passive resignation about her.
- They are sensitive to the sense of struggle and resignation in this dramatic movement and their rubato, though fluid, never damages the integrity of the underlying pulse.
- She imagined walking into the office and handing in her resignation.
- The local council has been thrown into total confusion by her resignation.
- When he made that announcement, the prime minister presumably did not mean that the official would continue to do his first-class job until Wednesday evening, whereupon he would draft a truly top-hole letter of resignation.
- Her resignation came amid investor fury after she overpaid wildly for a Brazilian iron ore mine. Times, Sunday Times
- He should use the Christmas period for mature reflection and then tender his resignation.