resign

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To officially leave a job or position.

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

2. 2
   verb

   To accept something unpleasant calmly because you cannot change it.

   After many failures, he resigned himself to his fate.

From Anglo-Norman resigner, Middle French resigner, and its source, Latin resignāre (“to unseal, annul, assign, resign”), from re- + signāre (“to seal, stamp”). Piecewise doublet of re-sign.

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