re-signとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From re- +‎ sign. Piecewise doublet of resign.

発音

• IPA: /ɹiːˈsaɪn/

動詞

re-sign (third-person singular simple present re-signs, present participle re-signing, simple past and past participle re-signed)

1. (transitive) To sign again; to provide one's signature again.
2. (by extension) To sign a contract renewing or restarting a professional relationship, such as that of a professional athlete with a sports team.
   • 1997, Billboard, volume 109, number 30, page 86:

     At the end of last year, the band re-signed to XL for another three albums, despite being chased by majors that included Island, says manager Mike Champion of Midi Management.

使用する際の注意点

• Spelling without the hyphen risks confusion with resign (“quit, give up”).

アナグラム

• Greins, Negris, Singer, nigres, re-nigs, reigns, renigs, resing, ringes, signer, singer

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɹɪˈzaɪn/
• 韻: -aɪn
• 韻: -ɪzaɪn

動詞

resign (third-person singular simple present resigns, present participle resigning, simple past and past participle resigned)

1. (transitive) To give up; to relinquish ownership of. [from 14th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 39, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     And if the perfection of well-speaking might bring any glorie sutable unto a great personage, Scipio and Lelius would never have resigned the honour of their Comedies […] unto an Affrican servant […].

2. (transitive) To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another.
3. (transitive or intransitive) To voluntarily leave (a job or position), in particular a hard-fought position of high status. [from 14th c.]

   Synonym: vacate

   I am resigning in protest of the unfair treatment of our employees.

   He resigned the crown to follow his heart.

   • 1974 August 8, Richard Nixon, 2:30 from the start, in Richard Nixon's resignation speech‎, CBSN:

     To continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the President and the Congress in a period when our entire focus should be on the great issues of peace abroad and prosperity without inflation at home. Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office.

4. (transitive) To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable. [from 15th c.]

   He had no choice but to resign the game and let his opponent become the champion.

   • 1996, Robin Buss, The Count of Monte Cristo, translation of, Alexandre Dumas, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 2003 Penguin edition, →ISBN, page 394 [2]:

     Here is a man who was resigned to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold and about to die like a coward, that's true, but at least he was about to die without resisting and without recrimination. Do you know what gave him that much strength? Do you know what consoled him? Do you know what resigned him to his fate?

同意語

• quit

派生語

• resignation
• resigner
• resignment
• resign oneself

語源 2

From re- +‎ sign.

発音

• IPA: /ɹiːˈsaɪn/

動詞

resign (third-person singular simple present resigns, present participle resigning, simple past and past participle resigned)

1. (proscribed) Alternative spelling of re-sign.
   • 2020, Kevin McCarthy, mutt 2.0.0 released, mutt-announce mailing list, November 7 2020

     Lastly, a note that I have resigned my GPG key to extend the expiration date.

使用する際の注意点

The spelling without the hyphen results in a heteronym and is usually avoided.

アナグラム

• Greins, Negris, Singer, nigres, re-nigs, reigns, renigs, resing, ringes, signer, singer