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resigns

resigns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of resign.

Meaning of resign

Verb

resign (third-person singular simple present resigns, present participle resigning, simple past and past participle resigned)

  1. (transitive) 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[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 39, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another.
  3. (intransitive, transitive) 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.
    Synonyms:
    vacate
  4. (transitive) 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.

Questions about resigns

What is resigns the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Resigns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of resign.

Words near resigns in the dictionary

  1. resignify
  2. resignifying
  3. resigning
  4. resignment
  5. resignments
  6. resigns
  7. Resigs
  8. resilable
  9. resile
  10. resiled
  11. resilement

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