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resign

re·sign [ ri zn ] (past and past participle re·signed, present participle re·sign·ing, 3rd person present singular re·signs)


verb 
Definition:
 
1. transitive and intransitive verb leave job: to give up a paid or unpaid position voluntarily

2. re·sign your·self vr accept something reluctantly: to come to terms with something and acquiesce in it reluctantly
He resigned himself to giving up work.

3. transitive verb relinquish claim: to give up a right or claim to something

[14th century. Via French< Latin resignare "unseal, cancel, give back" < signare "to seal" < signum "mark"]

re·signed adjective
re·sign·er noun
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