Etymology
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From Middle English resignacion, resignacioun, from Old French resignation, from Medieval Latin resignātiōnem, accusative of resignātio. Equivalent to resign + -ation.
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resignation (countable and uncountable, plural resignations)
- The act of resigning.
Jane offered her resignation to the board of directors, but they refused.
1978, Richard Nixon, “The Presidency 1973-1974”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon[1], Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1064:I knew my Cabinet well, and despite Haig's reports that they were all holding firm I knew that there would be great pressure on them all, and great temptations, to make public demands for my resignation. That was something I had to prevent if I possibly could. I was determined not to appear to have resigned the presidency because of a consensus of staff or Cabinet opinion or because of public pressure from the people around me. For me and no less for the country, I believed that my resignation had to be seen as something that I had decided upon completely on my own.
- A written or oral declaration that one resigns.
hand in one's resignation
- An uncomplaining acceptance of something undesirable but unavoidable.
With resignation I acknowledged that after the accident I would not be able to ski again.
- (Scots law, historical) The form by which a vassal returns the feu into the hands of a superior.
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act of resigning
- Arabic: اِسْتِقَالَة f (istiqāla)
- Armenian: հրաժարական (hy) (hražarakan)
- Azerbaijani: istefa (az)
- Belarusian: адста́ўка f (adstáŭka)
- Bulgarian: оста́вка (bg) f (ostávka)
- Catalan: dimissió (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 辭職/辞职 (zh) (cízhí)
- Czech: rezignace (cs) f
- Danish: fratræden
- Dutch: aftreding (nl) f
- Esperanto: abdiko (eo), demisio
- Estonian: lahkumispalve, lahkumisavaldus
- Finnish: irtisanoutuminen (fi), ero (fi)
- French: démission (fr) f
- Georgian: გადადგომა (gadadgoma)
- German: Rücktritt (de) m, Niederlegung f, Kündigung (de) f
- Greek: παραίτηση (el) f (paraítisi)
- Hindi: इस्तीफ़ा m (istīfā)
- Hungarian: lemondás (hu)
- Icelandic: uppsögn f
- Italian: dimissioni (it) f pl, uscita (it) f, fuoriuscita (it) f
- Japanese: 辞任 (ja) (じにん, jinin), 辞職 (ja) (じしょく, jishoku)
- Kazakh: отставка (otstavka)
- Khmer: ការលាឈប់ (kaa liə chup)
- Korean: 사임(辭任) (ko) (saim), 사직(辭職) (ko) (sajik)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: îstîfa (ku)
- Kyrgyz: отставка (otstavka)
- Latin: abdicātiō f
- Latvian: atkāpšanās f, demisija f
- Lithuanian: atsistatydinimas m, dimisija f
- Macedonian: оставка f (ostavka)
- Malayalam: രാജി (ml) (rāji)
- Maori: rihainatanga, rīhainatanga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: oppsigelse m
- Pashto: استعفا (ps) f (este'fã)
- Persian: استعفا (fa) (este'fâ)
- Polish: rezygnacja (pl) f, dymisja (pl) f (from an office)
- Portuguese: demissão (pt) f
- Romanian: demisie (ro) f
- Russian: отста́вка (ru) f (otstávka), ухо́д (ru) m (uxód) (с до́лжности)
- Scottish Gaelic: toirt suas f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: о̀ста̄вка f
- Roman: òstāvka (sh) f
- Slovak: rezignácia f
- Slovene: odstop m, odpoved m
- Spanish: dimisión (es) f, renuncia (es) f
- Swedish: avgång (sv) c
- Tajik: истеъфо (isteʾfo)
- Turkish: istifa (tr)
- Ukrainian: відста́вка f (vidstávka)
- Urdu: استعفٰی m (isti'fā), استعفا m (isti'fā)
- Uyghur: ئىستىپا (istipa)
- Uzbek: isteʻfo
- Vietnamese: từ chức (vi) (辭職)
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declaration that one resigns
state of uncomplaining acceptance
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