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A formal document giving notice of your intention to resign
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resignation
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. acceptance of despair [syn: surrender ] the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.) a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign; "he submitted his resignation as of next month"
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A resignation is the formal act of giving up or quitting one's office or position. A resignation can occur when a person holding a position gained by election or appointment steps down, but leaving a position upon the expiration of a term is not considered ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Resignation \Res`ig*na"tion\ (r[e^]z`[i^]g*n[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or commission. The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the act of resigning 2 a written or oral declaration that one resigns 3 state of uncomplaining, utter frustration
Usage examples of resignation.
We should then be brought to acknowledge that it behooves a Christian traveller to crave the assistance of Him who can enable us to suffer with becoming fortitude and resignation all the afflicting dispensations of life, rather than desire to be preserved from meeting them.
What shall we do but seek ability at the Divine footstool to bow in humble resignation to this afflictive dispensation?
William Dennison, the Postmaster-general, tendered his resignation, alleging as the chief cause the difference of opinion between himself and the President in regard to the proposed Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
He had assumed that the return of the apprentice would mean the end of his job, and there was a resignation about his manner that day and the next.
The deadness I saw in them went beyond resignation to the beastlike tolerance for suffering that is usually attributed to abused animals.
When he perceived his real situation, instead of entering into useless remonstrance, or in any manner betraying alarm, he again turned to Jacopo with an air of patience and resignation.
The older Markis Kane gazed out of his photos with equal parts disdain and resignation.
Ingram, who had voted against Celia and for Montayne at the critical meeting prior to her resignation, had been penitent and uneasy at the time of her return to Felding-Roth.
Donahue and his staff know about your stand within the company against Montayne, and your resignation because of it.
General Morra, Minister of War, has sent in his resignation, and there is bracing weather in the neighbourhood of the Palazzo Braschi.
I wrote my resignation on an overling slip and left it in the register.
Arcturus, founder and sole prophet of the Panspermic Church of First Contact, replied with the weary resignation of one who was accustomed to being mocked by an unbelieving world.
Marina a blue-rimmed pottery bowl full of hot oat porridge, which Marina regarded with resignation, then garnished with sugar and cream and dug into so as to get rid of it as soon as possible.
The Pictish religieuse raised her broad shoulders and let them fall in a gesture that was one of part indecision and part resignation.
Susquehanna, and coming among people in outward ease and greatness, supported chiefly on the labor of slaves, my heart was much affected, and in awful retiredness my mind was gathered inward to the Lord, humbly desiring that in true resignation I might receive instruction from him respecting my duty among this people.