resignation

See also: Resignation and résignation

English

Etymology

From Middle English resignacion, resignacioun, from Old French resignation, from Medieval Latin resignātiōnem, accusative of resignātio. Equivalent to resign +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛz.ɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/

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  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌɹez.ɪɡˈnæɪ.ʃən/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌɹez.əɡˈnæɪ.ʃən/

Noun

resignation (countable and uncountable, plural resignations)

1. The act of resigning.

   Jane tendered her resignation to the board of directors, but they refused.

   • 1978, Richard Nixon, “The Presidency 1973–1974”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon‎, 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.

2. A written or oral declaration that one resigns.

   hand in one's resignation

3. An uncomplaining acceptance of something undesirable but unavoidable.

   With resignation I acknowledged that after the accident I would not be able to ski again.

4. (Scots law, historical) The form by which a vassal returns the feu into the hands of a superior.

Synonyms

• resignment

Derived terms

• resignation syndrome

Translations

act of resigning

Albanian: dorëheqje (sq) f Arabic: اِسْتِقَالَة f (istiqāla), اِسْتِعْفَاء m (istiʕfāʔ) Armenian: հրաժարական (hy) (hražarakan) Azerbaijani: istefa (az) Belarusian: адста́ўка f (adstáŭka) Bulgarian: оста́вка (bg) f (ostávka) Catalan: dimissió (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 劈炮 (pek3 paau3) Mandarin: 辭職 / 辞职 (zh) (cízhí) Czech: rezignace (cs) f Danish: fratræden c, fratrædelse c 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 Indonesian: pengunduran diri (id) 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) Malay: perletakan jawatan Malayalam: രാജി (ml) (rāji) Maori: rihainatanga, rīhainatanga Norwegian: Bokmål: oppsigelse m Pashto: استعفا (ps) f (este'fã) Persian: Iranian Persian: اِسْتِعْفا (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 (iste'fo) Tatar: отставка (otstawka) Turkish: istifa (tr) Ukrainian: відста́вка f (vidstávka) Urdu: اِسْتِعْفا m (isti'fā) Uyghur: ئىستىپا (istipa) Uzbek: isteʻfo Vietnamese: từ chức (vi) (辭職)

declaration that one resigns

Bulgarian: оста́вка (bg) f (ostávka) Chinese: Mandarin: 辭呈 / 辞呈 (zh) (cíchéng), 辭職書 / 辞职书 (zh) (cízhíshū) Esperanto: abdiko (eo), demisio Finnish: eroanomus French: démission (fr) f German: Rücktrittserklärung (de) f Greek: παραίτηση (el) f (paraítisi) Hungarian: lemondás (hu) Icelandic: uppsagnarbréf n (letter of resignation), tilkynning um uppsögn (oral or written) Japanese: 辞表 (ja) (じひょう, jihyō) Korean: 사임 (ko) (saim) Polish: rezygnacja (pl) f Russian: заявле́ние (ru) n (zajavlénije) (об отста́вке, об ухо́де с до́лжности) Slovak: rezignácia f, odstúpenie n, demisia f Spanish: renuncia (es) f Ukrainian: зая́ва f (zajáva) (про відста́вку)

state of uncomplaining acceptance

Bulgarian: примире́ние (bg) n (primirénie) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: gelatenheid (nl) f Esperanto: rezignacio Finnish: alistuminen (fi) French: résignation (fr) f German: Resignation (de) f Greek: εγκαρτέρηση (el) f (egkartérisi) Hungarian: belenyugvás (hu), beletörődés (hu), rezignáció (hu) Italian: rassegnazione (it) f Persian: Iranian Persian: تَسْلیم (fa) (taslim) Polish: rezygnacja (pl) f Portuguese: resignação (pt) f Russian: смире́ние (ru) n (smirénije) Slovak: rezignácia f Spanish: resignación f Swahili: mucsidjr

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