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# resign

«resign» in Mova's school dictionary: **to leave your job or position by choice, often by telling…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (resign, resigns, resigned, resigning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To resign is to leave your job or position by choice, often by telling your employer officially. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resign/#m1)

2) To resign yourself to something is to accept something bad that you cannot change. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resign/#m2)

3) In chess, to resign is to give up the game before checkmate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resign/#m3)

4) To resign can also mean to hand over something you are in charge of to someone else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resign/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In news and everyday life, a manager or politician «resigns» after a problem. In formal letters people write «I wish to resign from my post». In chess club, a player resigns when they know they will lose. Phrases: resign from, resign as, resign yourself to, be resigned to.

### examples

- The football manager resigned after the team lost again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resign/#x1)
- She resigned from her job to start her own business. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resign/#x2)
- He resigned as captain of the team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resign/#x3)
- We resigned ourselves to a rainy holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resign/#x4)
- In chess, you can resign if you know you will lose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resign/#x5)
- The minister was forced to resign. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resign/#x6)
- Mr Brown resigned and was replaced by Mrs Lee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resign/#x7)
- AEthra at once resigned her charge, whereupon the brothers took leave of Athens, and, accompanied by Helen, returned to their native country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resign/#x8)

### note

Regular verb; the g is silent: say ri-ZINE. The noun is «resignation». «Resigned» as an adjective means accepting something sadly. Do not confuse with «re-sign» (sign again, as a football player re-signs for a club).

### In the corpora

- ["To spend more time with family" is often the official reason given when someone is forced to resign.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/22/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «resign» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resign/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.