resignation
/ˌɹɛz.ɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.02 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Jane tendered her resignation to the board of directors, but they refused."
- "I knew my Cabinet well, and despite Haig's reports that they were all holding firm I knew that there would be great pressure on them all, and great temptations, to make public demands for my resignation. That was something I had to prevent if I possibly could. I was determined not to appear to have resigned the presidency because of a consensus of staff or Cabinet opinion or because of public pressure from the people around me. For me and no less for the country, I believed that my resignation had to be seen as something that I had decided upon completely on my own."
- "David Cameron tries to deal with things with humour when they’re the most difficult, and [the next morning]^([sic]) he walked into the office where we’d been drafting a resignation statement for him, and he said: “Well, that didn’t go well, did it?”"
- "hand in one's resignation"
- "With resignation I acknowledged that after the accident I would not be able to ski again."
Etymology
From Middle English resignacion, resignacioun, from Old French resignation, from Medieval Latin resignātiōnem, accusative of resignātio. Equivalent to resign + -ation.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: resignacion, resignation, resignātiōnem
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɹɛz.ɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/
- British English: /ˌɹɛz.ɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/