All 10 Uses

resignation
in
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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Vanger gestured in resignation.
Chpt 2.9 *

resignation = accepted something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
You resigned as publisher, you left the editorial staff and the board, and you went to live in the woods.
Chpt 2.11 *

resigned = quit
He has done some devastating individual portraits of captains of industry and politicians—which were most likely well deserved—and caused a number of resignations and legal repercussions.†
Chpt 1.2
The most well-known was the Arboga affair, which resulted in the forced resignation of a Conservative politician and the sentencing of a former councillor to a year in prison for embezzlement.†
Chpt 1.2
She gave him a resigned look and then nodded curtly.†
Chpt 2.13
She had reproduced virtually word for word the press release that he and Berger had submitted after he resigned as publisher of Millennium.†
Chpt 3.17
Instead he had looked almost resigned, muttered something sarcastic, and gone off to the shower.†
Chpt 3.21
"OK," Blomkvist said, giving her a resigned smile.†
Chpt 4.28
Janne Dahlman has resigned and starts working at Monopoly Financial Magazine in three weeks.†
Chpt 4.28
"No, it doesn't matter at all," Blomkvist said in a voice so weary and resigned that he sounded like some sort of oracle.†
Chpt Epil.

Definitions:

(1) (resignation as in: submitted her resignation)
to quit -- especially a job or position; or a document expressing such an act
(2) (resignation as in: accepted it with resignation)
acceptance of something undesired as unavoidable or the lesser of evils
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
To resign can also more specifically mean to surrender or give up as in "I was clearly going to lose the chess game, so I resigned;" or "She resigned all pretense."