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Resignation

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surrendernoun(intransitive or reflexive) To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.

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surrendernounAn act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
relinquishmentnounThe act of relinquishing something.
resignverb(transitive or intransitive) To voluntarily leave (a job or position), in particular a hard-fought position of high status.
resignedCharacterized by resignation or acceptance.
renouncementnounThe act of renouncing.
renunciationnounThe act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid.
quits(colloquial, British) On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed.
quitnounAny of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.
abdicationnounThe act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder.
revocationnounAn act or instance of revoking.
quittingnounThe termination of employment, initiated by the employee.
waivernounThe act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
abandonmentnounThe act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
retirementnounThe state of having permanently left one's employment, now especially at reaching pensionable age; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career.
dismissalnounDeprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.
withdrawalnounA type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance (such as a drug) on which a patient is dependent is withheld.
dischargenoun(medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
disclaimernounA public disavowal, as of responsibility, pretensions, claims, opinions, etc.
departurenounThe act of departing or something that has departed.
removalnounThe process of removing or the fact of being removed.

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