resign 'give up or retire from a position' vacate 'leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily' quit 'give up or retire from a position' renounce 'leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily' give up 'leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily' step down 'give up or retire from a position' leave office 'give up or retire from a position' resign 'leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily'
leave office renounce walk out give up retire leave step down abdicate quit vacate depart resign withdraw
quit 'COD: resign from (a job). ' leave 'FN: quit a job' retire 'COD: leave one's job and cease to work, especially because one has reached a particular age. ' resign 'COD: voluntarily leave a job or position of office. '
The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds The chairman resigned over the financial scandal She vacated the position when she got pregnant The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month
Examples from VerbNet
He resigned as head of the lab. He resigned. I resigned my position. He resigned from the military.
Examples from SemCor
It was an alien land, and she hated it intensely; she was already considering putting_in rebellious requests for duty at San_Diego, Bremerton, the Great_Lakes, Pensacola- any place the Navy had a hospital- with a threat to resign her commission if the request were not granted. Five candidates seek the place vacated by Secretary_Hugh_G._Stout. A special presentation was made to Mrs._Geraldine_Thompson of Red_Bank, who is stepping_down after 35 years on the committee. Whee the People: Lovely_Thrush_Annamorena gave_up a promising show_biz career to apply glamor touches to her hubby, Ray_Lenobel 's fur firm here. Sam_Caldwell, State_Highway_Department public_relations director, resigned Tuesday to work for Lt._Gov._Garland_Byrd 's campaign. The former county school_superintendent, George_P._Callan, shot himself to death March 18, four days after he resigned his post in a dispute with the county school_board. Parker insisted upon not resigning, even when the majority wanted him to depart, upon daring the Fellowship to throw him out. Four years later he resigned to take a similar job with the Green_Bay_Packers. Mr._Simpkins will move_into the post being vacated by Thomas_B._Finan, earlier named attorney_general to succeed C._Ferdinand_Sybert, who will be elevated to an associate judgeship on the Maryland Court_of_Appeals. It gets so frustrating, but then_again I do n't know what I could do if I gave_up racing''. Pfaff succeeds Martin_Burke, who resigned. Dr._Hester, also one of the youngest men ever to head a major American university, succeeds Dr._Carroll_V._Newsom who resigned last September to join Prentice-Hall_Inc. publishing_firm. In Poughkeepsie, N._Y., in 1952, a Roman_Catholic hospital presented seven Protestant physicians with an ultimatum to quit the Planned_Parenthood_Federation or to resign from the hospital staff. In Poughkeepsie, N._Y., in 1952, a Roman_Catholic hospital presented seven Protestant physicians with an ultimatum to quit the Planned_Parenthood_Federation or to resign from the hospital staff. And so the young minister resigned, to go and study and pray, having never passed a day, he told his parishioners, when`` I did not gain from you far more_than I ever gave to you''.