intransitive. To give up an office or position; to terminate one's employment, tenure, membership, etc., of one's own free will. In later use also…

transitive and intransitive = resign, v.1 (in various senses).

intransitive. Of a government: to come to an end; (of a government minister) to be dismissed from office; to retire from or leave office.

transitive. To resign, relinquish (office, power, dignity, hopes, etc.; †also absol. = to retire from office, etc.); †to discard, cease to bear (a…

To resign one's office. Obsolete.

transitive. slang (chiefly British). To give up, abandon (an activity). Formerly also intransitive: †to throw up or abandon one's work, to give up…

Chiefly North American. to pull the pin: to remove the coupling mechanism of a trailer, railway wagon, etc.; (figurative) to abandon something…

In plural. The certificates which accompany a military officer's application for permission to resign. Chiefly in to send in one's papers: to resign.

To go from a higher level to a lower, esp. by treading on a step or stairway. Also, to go a short distance to a place which is, or is regarded as…

to snatch itor one's time: to resign, to leave a job and take the wages due. Australian slang.