resignation

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• Canada, UK, US: /ˌɹɛz.ɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/
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• rhymes with -eɪʃən
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• Australian: /ˌɹez.ɪɡˈnæɪ.ʃən/
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• New-Zealand: /ˌɹez.əɡˈnæɪ.ʃən/
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• CMU ARPABET: R EH2 Z AH0 G N EY1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English resignacion, resignacioun, from Old French resignation, from Medieval Latin resignātiōnem, accusative of resignātio. Equivalent to resign + -ation.

117 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: dorëheqje — act of resigning
• Arabic: اِسْتِقَالَة (istiqāla) — act of resigning
• Arabic: اِسْتِعْفَاء (istiʕfāʔ) — act of resigning
• Armenian: հրաժարական (hražarakan) — act of resigning
• Azerbaijani: istefa — act of resigning
• Belarusian: адста́ўка (adstáwka) — act of resigning
• Bulgarian: оста́вка (ostávka) — act of resigning
• Catalan: dimissió — act of resigning
• Chinese Cantonese: 劈炮 (pek3 paau3) — act of resigning
• Chinese Mandarin: 辭職 /辞职 (cízhí) — act of resigning
• Czech: rezignace — act of resigning
• Danish: fratræden — act of resigning
• Danish: fratrædelse — act of resigning
• Dutch: aftreding — act of resigning
• Esperanto: abdiko — act of resigning
• Esperanto: demisio — act of resigning
• Esperanto: eksiĝo — act of resigning
• Estonian: lahkumispalve — act of resigning
• Estonian: lahkumisavaldus — act of resigning
• Finnish: irtisanoutuminen — act of resigning
• Finnish: ero — act of resigning
• French: démission — act of resigning
• Georgian: გადადგომა (gadadgoma) — act of resigning
• German: Rücktritt — act of resigning
• German: Niederlegung — act of resigning
• German: Kündigung — act of resigning
• Greek: παραίτηση (paraítisi) — act of resigning
• Hindi: इस्तीफ़ा (istīfā) — act of resigning
• Hungarian: lemondás — act of resigning
• Icelandic: uppsögn — act of resigning
• Indonesian: pengunduran diri — act of resigning
• Italian: dimissioni — act of resigning
• Italian: uscita — act of resigning
• Italian: fuoriuscita — act of resigning
• Japanese: 辞任 (jinin) — act of resigning
• Japanese: 辞職 (jishoku) — act of resigning
• Kazakh: отставка (otstavka) — act of resigning
• Khmer: ការលាឈប់ (kaa liə chup) — act of resigning
• Korean: 사임 (saim) — act of resigning
• Korean: 사직 (sajik) — act of resigning
• Northern Kurdish: îstîfa — act of resigning
• Kyrgyz: отставка (otstavka) — act of resigning
• Latin: abdicātiō — act of resigning
• Latvian: atkāpšanās — act of resigning
• Latvian: demisija — act of resigning
• Lithuanian: atsistatydinimas — act of resigning
• Lithuanian: dimisija — act of resigning
• Macedonian: оставка (ostavka) — act of resigning
• Malay: perletakan jawatan — act of resigning
• Malayalam: രാജി (rāji) — act of resigning
• Māori: rihainatanga — act of resigning
• Māori: rīhainatanga — act of resigning
• Norwegian Bokmål: oppsigelse — act of resigning
• Pashto: استعفا (este'fã) — act of resigning
• Iranian Persian: اِسْتِعْفا (este'fâ) — act of resigning
• Polish: rezygnacja — act of resigning
• Polish: dymisja — act of resigning
• Portuguese: demissão — act of resigning
• Romanian: demisie — act of resigning
• Russian: отста́вка (otstávka) — act of resigning
• Russian: ухо́д (uxód) — act of resigning
• Scottish Gaelic: toirt suas — act of resigning
• Serbo-Croatian: о̀ста̄вка — act of resigning
• Serbo-Croatian: òstāvka — act of resigning
• Slovak: rezignácia — act of resigning
• Slovene: odstop — act of resigning
• Slovene: odpoved — act of resigning
• Spanish: dimisión — act of resigning
• Spanish: renuncia — act of resigning
• Swedish: avgång — act of resigning
• Tajik: истеъфо (iste'fo) — act of resigning
• Tatar: отставка (otstavqa) — act of resigning
• Turkish: istifa — act of resigning
• Ukrainian: відста́вка (vidstávka) — act of resigning
• Urdu: اِسْتِعْفا (isti'fā) — act of resigning
• Uyghur: ئىستىپا (istipa) — act of resigning
• Uzbek: isteʻfo — act of resigning
• Vietnamese: từ chức — act of resigning
• Bulgarian: оста́вка (ostávka) — declaration that one resigns
• Chinese Mandarin: 辭呈 /辞呈 (cíchéng) — declaration that one resigns
• Chinese Mandarin: 辭職書 /辞职书 (cízhíshū) — declaration that one resigns
• Esperanto: abdiko — declaration that one resigns
• Esperanto: demisio — declaration that one resigns
• Finnish: eroanomus — declaration that one resigns
• French: démission — declaration that one resigns
• German: Rücktrittserklärung — declaration that one resigns
• Greek: παραίτηση (paraítisi) — declaration that one resigns
• Hungarian: lemondás — declaration that one resigns
• Icelandic: uppsagnarbréf — declaration that one resigns
• Icelandic: tilkynning um uppsögn — declaration that one resigns
• Japanese: 辞表 (jihyō) — declaration that one resigns
• Korean: 사임 (saim) — declaration that one resigns
• Polish: rezygnacja — declaration that one resigns
• Russian: заявле́ние (zajavlénije) — declaration that one resigns
• Slovak: rezignácia — declaration that one resigns
• Slovak: odstúpenie — declaration that one resigns
• Slovak: demisia — declaration that one resigns
• Spanish: renuncia — declaration that one resigns
• Ukrainian: зая́ва (zajáva) — declaration that one resigns
• Bulgarian: примире́ние (primirénie) — state of uncomplaining acceptance
• Dutch: gelatenheid — state of uncomplaining acceptance
• Esperanto: rezignacio — state of uncomplaining acceptance
• Finnish: alistuminen — state of uncomplaining acceptance
• French: résignation — state of uncomplaining acceptance
• German: Resignation — state of uncomplaining acceptance
• Greek: εγκαρτέρηση (egkartérisi) — state of uncomplaining acceptance
• Hungarian: belenyugvás — state of uncomplaining acceptance
• Hungarian: beletörődés — state of uncomplaining acceptance
• Hungarian: rezignáció — state of uncomplaining acceptance
• Italian: rassegnazione — state of uncomplaining acceptance
• Iranian Persian: تَسْلیم (taslim) — state of uncomplaining acceptance
• Polish: rezygnacja — state of uncomplaining acceptance
• Portuguese: resignação — state of uncomplaining acceptance
• Russian: смире́ние (smirénije) — state of uncomplaining acceptance
• Slovak: rezignácia — state of uncomplaining acceptance
• Spanish: resignación — state of uncomplaining acceptance
• Swahili: mucsidjr — state of uncomplaining acceptance