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"The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds"verbleave (a job, post, or position) voluntarilytype of:
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"resign a claim to the throne"verbpart with a possession or right
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"The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"verbgive up or retire from a position
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"He resigned himself to his fate"verbaccept as inevitabletype of:
Definition that contains resign
- ford 38th President of the United States; appointed vice president and succeeded Nixon when Nixon resigned (1913-2006)
- separation the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
- nixon vice president under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States; resigned after the Watergate scandal in 1974 (1913-1994)
- resignation a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign
- watergate a political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice; led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974
- shrug raise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation
- abject showing utter resignation or hopelessness
- defeatist someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions
- leakey English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)
- abdication a formal resignation and renunciation of powers