resign

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   accept as inevitable

   I resigned myself to my fate.

2. 2
   verb

   To give up; to relinquish ownership of.

   And if the perfection of well-speaking might bring any glorie sutable unto a great personage, Scipio and Lelius would never have resigned the honour of their Comedies[…]unto an Affrican servant[…].

3. 3
   verb

   To voluntarily leave (a job or position), in particular a hard-fought position of high status.

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

4. 4
   verb

   To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable.

   He had no choice but to resign the game and let his opponent become the champion.

5. 5
   verb

   Alternative spelling of re-sign.

   Lastly, a note that I have resigned my GPG key to extend the expiration date.

6. 6
   verb

   part with a possession or right

7. 7
   verb

   leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily

8. 8
   verb

   give up or retire from a position

Etymology

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.