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/

  • Audio (US):

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

Noun

resignation (countable and uncountable, plural resignations)

1. The act of resigning.

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

   • 1978, Richard Nixon, “The Presidency 1973-1974”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon‎^[1], 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

• Arabic: اِسْتِقَالَة f (istiqāla)
• Armenian: հրաժարական (hy) (hražarakan)
• Azerbaijani: istefa (az)
• Belarusian: адста́ўка f (adstáŭka)
• Bulgarian: оста́вка (bg) f (ostávka)
• Catalan: dimissió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 辭職／辞职 (zh) (cízhí)

• Czech: rezignace (cs) f
• Danish: fratræden
• 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
• 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)
• Malayalam: രാജി (ml) (rāji)
• Maori: rihainatanga, rīhainatanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oppsigelse m

• Pashto: استعفا (ps) f (este'fã)
• Persian: استعفا (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 (isteʾfo)
• Turkish: istifa (tr)
• Ukrainian: відста́вка f (vidstávka)
• Urdu: استعفٰی m (isti'fā), استعفا m (isti'fā)
• Uyghur: ئىستىپا (istipa)
• Uzbek: isteʻfo
• Vietnamese: từ chức (vi) (辭職)

declaration that one resigns

• Bulgarian: оставка (bg) f (ostavka)
• 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)
• Russian: заявле́ние (ru) n (zajavlénije) (об отста́вке, об ухо́де с до́лжности)
• Slovak: rezignácia, odstúpenie, demisia
• Spanish: renuncia (es) f
• Ukrainian: зая́ва f (zajáva) (про відста́вку)

state of uncomplaining acceptance

• Bulgarian: примирение (bg) n (primirenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 无奈 (zh) (wúnài)

• 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)
• Persian: تسلیم (fa) (taslim)
• Portuguese: resignação (pt) f
• Russian: смире́ние (ru) n (smirénije)
• Slovak: rezignácia
• Spanish: resignación f
• Swahili: mucsidjr

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