resignations
Sayrez-ig-NAY-shuhnzUS · UK/ˌɹɛz.ɪɡˈneɪ.ʃənz/AUS/ˌɹez.ɪɡˈnæɪ.ʃənz/
- 1Plural of resignation.
A wave of resignations swept through the cabinet after the vote.
The board accepted both resignations without further comment.
Note
The plural mostly counts departures and the letters or statements that announce them: three resignations in a week, a pile of resignations on the chair's desk. The quieter meaning, patient acceptance of what cannot be helped, can take a plural too, but it usually stays a mass noun. One sees resignation in a face, not resignations. In historical feudal usage, resignations were a vassal's formal returns of a feu to his superior.
resignations is a form of resignation
resignation, noun: The act of formally giving up a job, office, or position. Full entry
- Forms
- resignationresignations plural
- Spelling
- resignation → resignations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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