verb
give up or retire from a position
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The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month
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The chairman resigned over the financial scandal
• Ant: ↑take office
• Derivationally related forms: ↑resignation (for: ↑resign)
• Hypernyms: ↑leave, ↑depart, ↑pull up stakes
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• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s
Useful english dictionary. 2012.