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{
"term": "resign",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "resign",
"heSheIt": "resigns"
},
"pastSimple": "resigned",
"pastParticiple": "resigned",
"ingForm": "resigning"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to officially tell somebody that you are leaving your job, an organization, etc.",
"sensetop": "resign as somethingresign from somethingresign over somethingresign something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She was forced to resign due to ill health."
},
{
"text": "He resigned as manager after eight years.",
"contextForm": "resign as something"
},
{
"text": "Two members resigned from the board in protest.",
"contextForm": "resign from something"
},
{
"text": "Some judges have threatened to resign over this issue.",
"contextForm": "resign over something"
},
{
"text": "My father resigned his directorship last year.",
"contextForm": "resign something"
},
{
"text": "He resigned as chairman."
},
{
"text": "She formally resigned from the government."
},
{
"text": "The minister offered to resign after his affair became public."
},
{
"text": "They called on her to resign as chief executive."
},
{
"text": "Three members of the committee resigned over the issue."
},
{
"text": "Two MPs threatened to resign if the government did not agree to examine this case."
}
],
"topics": ["Working life"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["formally", "abruptly", "immediately"],
"verb + resign": ["be forced to", "be obliged to", "have to"],
"preposition": ["as", "from", "over"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzaɪn/",
"audio": "re/resign/resign__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzaɪnz/",
"audio": "re/resign/resigns__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzaɪnd/",
"audio": "re/resign/resigned__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzaɪnɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/resign/resigning__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzaɪn/",
"audio": "re/resign/resign__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzaɪnz/",
"audio": "re/resign/resigns__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzaɪnd/",
"audio": "re/resign/resigned__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzaɪnɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/resign/resigning__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French resigner, from Latin resignare ‘unseal, cancel’, from re- ‘back’ + signare ‘sign, seal’."
}