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Resigner

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re·sign  (r-zn)
v. re·signed, re·sign·ing, re·signs
v.tr.
1. To submit (oneself) passively; accept as inevitable: I resigned myself to a long wait in line.
2. To give up (a position, for example), especially by formal notification.
3. To relinquish (a privilege, right, or claim). See Synonyms at relinquish.
v.intr.
To give up one's job or office; quit, especially by formal notification: resign from a board of directors.

[Middle English resignen, from Old French resigner, from Latin resignre, to unseal : re-, re- + signre, to seal (from signum, mark, seal; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots).]

re·signer n.


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If it's only four would-be resigners, as Robinson later claimed, that's not very serious.
Le personnage de Mba pense que les femmes dont l'education est sacrifiee doivent, par consequent, << se resigner a travailler, souffrir avant l'age, et laisser les ndumbas aller disserter de l'emancipation de la femme africaine >> (Lopes 1971 : 17).
Other possibilities include International Development Secretary Mr Benn, party chairman Hazel Blears, the soft-left MP Jon Cruddas, and the former minister and Iraq War resigner John Denham.
 
 
 
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