resign

See also: re-sign

English

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  resigner, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French resigner, and its source, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin resignāre (“to unseal, annul, assign, resign”), from re- + signāre (“to seal, stamp”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzaɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

Verb

resign (third-person singular simple present resigns, present participle resigning, simple past and past participle resigned)

1. (transitive) To give up; to relinquish ownership of. [from 14th c.]
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2. (transitive) To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another.
3. (transitive or intransitive) To quit (a job or position). [from 14th c.]

   I am resigning in protest of the unfair treatment of our employees.

   He resigned the crown to follow his heart.

4. (transitive or intransitive) To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable. [from 15th c.]

   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.

   • 1996, Robin Buss, The Count of Monte Cristo, translation of, Alexandre Dumas, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 2003 Penguin edition, →ISBN, page 394 [1]:

     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

Translations

to give something up or relinquish

• Finnish: luovuttaa (fi)
• Hungarian: lemond (hu), felad (hu)
• Icelandic: gefa upp, gefa upp á bátinn, falla frá, afsala sér, láta, láta af hendi
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: rassegnare (it), rinunciare (it)
• Maori: tuku
• Slovak: vzdať sa, vzdávať sa

hand over, give over (to someone)

• Hungarian: átad (hu), átenged (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

quit a job or position

• Arabic: اِسْتَقَالَ (istaqāla)

  Egyptian Arabic: استعفى (istaʿfa)

• Armenian: հրաժարական տալ (hražarakan tal)
• Catalan: dimitir (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 辭職／辞职 (zh) (cízhí), 辞职 (zh) (cízhí), 辭去／辞去 (zh) (cíqù), 辞去 (zh) (cíqù)

• Czech: odstoupit, rezignovat
• Dutch: ontslag nemen
• Esperanto: rezigni
• Finnish: erota (fi)
• French: démissionner (fr)
• Georgian: უარის თქმა (uaris tkma)
• German: zurücktreten (de), kündigen (de)
• Greek: παραιτούμαι (el) (paraitoúmai)
• Hebrew: התפטר (he) (hitpatér)
• Hindi: पदत्याग (hi) m (padatyāg)
• Hungarian: lemond (hu), leköszön (hu)
• Icelandic: segja upp, segja af sér, láta af (embætti, starfi, etc.), draga sig í hlé (imprecise, somewhat euphemistic)
• Irish: éirigh as
• Italian: dimettersi (it)
• Japanese: 辞任する (ja) (jinin suru), 辞職する (ja) (jishoku suru), 辞める (ja) (yameru)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Khmer: លាឈប់ (liə chup)
• Korean: 사임하다 (ko) (saim-hada)
• Latin: abdicō (la)
• Lithuanian: atsistatydinti
• Malay: meletak jawatan
• Maori: rīhaina
• Mongolian: огцрох (mn) (ogcrox)
• Norwegian: gå av, si opp (no)
• Occitan: demissionar
• Portuguese: demitir-se, desligar-se, renunciar (pt)
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: отка́зываться от до́лжности impf (otkázyvatʹsja ot dólžnosti), уходи́ть в отста́вку impf (uxodítʹ v otstávku), бро́сить рабо́ту pf (brósitʹ rabótu), увольня́ться (ru) impf (uvolʹnjátʹsja), уво́литься (ru) pf (uvólitʹsja)
• Slovak: rezignovať, odstúpiť
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: gódy wześ

• Spanish: renunciar (es), dimitir (es)
• Swedish: avgå (sv), sluta (sv)
• Thai: ลาออก (laa-ɔ̀ɔk)
• Turkish: istifa etmek (tr)
• Vietnamese: từ chức (vi)
• Welsh: ymddiswyddo (cy), rhoi'r gorau

to give up

• Esperanto: rezignacii
• Finnish: luovuttaa (fi)
• French: se résigner (fr), se faire une raison (fr)
• Hungarian: belenyugszik (hu), beletörődik, felad (hu)
• Italian: rassegnarsi (it), rinunciare (it), darla su
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 포기하다 (ko) (pogihada)
• Norwegian: gi opp (no), resignere
• Portuguese: resignar (pt)
• Slovak: rezignovať, vzdať sa, vzdávať sa
• Spanish: resignarse (es), renunciar (es)
• Swedish: resignera (sv)

Etymology 2

re- +‎ sign

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːˌsaɪn/

Verb

resign (third-person singular simple present resigns, present participle resigning, simple past and past participle resigned)

1. (proscribed) Alternative spelling of re-sign

Usage notes

The spelling without the hyphen results in a heteronym and is usually avoided.

Anagrams

• Greins, Negris, Singer, nigres, re-nigs, reigns, renigs, resing, ringes, signer, singer