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How to spell resignation

Resignation is spelled R-E-S-I-G-N-A-T-I-O-N.

What it means: A written statement that one is leaving a job.

In a sentence: She gave her resignation and said goodbye to her job. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: resign, resigned, resignedly, resignee, resignation-letter. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Resignation” comes from the Latin verb *resignare*, meaning “to unseal” or “to cancel,” which later developed the sense of giving up a position or claim. Over time, the word also came to describe the emotional state of calmly accepting something difficult or unpleasant.

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