resignation
noun
[ rɛzɪɡˈneɪʃ(ə)n ]
• an act of resigning from a job or office.
• "he announced his resignation"
Similar:
departure,
leaving,
standing down,
stepping down,
retirement,
giving up,
vacating,
relinquishment,
renunciation,
surrender,
abdication,
quitting,
demission,
• the acceptance of something undesirable but inevitable.
• "a shrug of resignation"
Similar:
patience,
forbearance,
tolerance,
stoicism,
endurance,
fortitude,
sufferance,
lack of protest,
lack of complaint,
acceptance of the inevitable,
fatalism,
acceptance,
acquiescence,
compliance,
passivity,
passiveness,
non-resistance,
submission,
docility,
phlegm,
longanimity,
Origin:
late Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin resignatio(n- ), from resignare ‘unseal, cancel’ (see resign).
