resignation

/ˈrɛzəgˌneɪʃən/

/rɛzɪgˈneɪʃən/

Other forms: resignations

Resignation can mean either stepping down from a job or accepting an unpleasant but inevitable situation. You could even feel resignation as you announce your resignation.

Once you've announced or handed in your formal resignation to a job, organization, or political office, you're finished. You've formally quit or stepped down. If you've left the position due to budget cuts, you'll probably leave with a feeling of resignation — acknowledging that there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.

Definitions of resignation

1. noun

   the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.)
   types:

   abdication, stepping down

   a formal resignation and renunciation of powers

   renouncement, renunciation

   an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned

   relinquishing, relinquishment

   a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc.

   type of:

   speech act

   the use of language to perform some act
2. noun

   a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign
   “he submitted his resignation as of next month”

   types:

   abdication, stepping down

   the act of abdicating

   type of:

   document, papers, written document

   writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)
3. noun

   acceptance of despair
   synonyms: surrender

   types:

   defeatism

   acceptance of the inevitability of defeat

   type of:

   despair

   the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well