All 8 Uses of
resignation
in
Main Street
- They gaily came in half an hour late, or they vociferously came in ten minutes early, and they were so hurt that they whispered about resigning when Carol protested.†
Chpt 18
- The most considerable event of the two years after the birth of Hugh occurred when Vida Sherwin resigned from the high school and was married.†
Chpt 20
- She had resigned from the school, but she kept up one class in English.†
Chpt 21
- If it wasn't too late to get a job in the Cities, I swear I'd resign here.†
Chpt 28
- Won't you stand by Fern, and threaten to resign from the board if they try to discharge her?
Chpt 32 *resign = quit (in this to quit in protest)
- It was Tuesday afternoon before she learned that the board had met at ten in the morning and voted to "accept Miss Fern Mullins's resignation."†
Chpt 32
- We're just letting her resign.†
Chpt 32 *
- Would you like to drop over to the hotel and ask her to write the resignation, now we've accepted it?†
Chpt 32
Definitions:
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(resignation as in: submitted her resignation) to quit -- especially a job or position; or a document expressing such an act
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(resignation as in: accepted it with resignation) acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils