Resignees

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person who has resigned from a position or office, relinquishing their duties and responsibilities
2. individuals who formally withdraw from a role or obligation, often in a professional context
3. those who decisively choose to discontinue their involvement with an organization or job, typically to pursue other opportunities

Etymology: "Resignees" is simply the plural of "resignee," which is a compound of "resign" and the suffix "-ee." The suffix "-ee" comes from French, where its past-participle endings were used to mark the person on the receiving end of an action, so that a "payee" is one who is paid and an "employee" is one who is employed. Attached to "resign," it produces a word for the person who is given up or relinquishes a position, the one who hands in a resignation. The base verb "resign" entered English from Old French "resigner," from Latin "resignare," meaning "to unseal" or "to cancel," from "re-" (back) and "signare" (to sign, from "signum," a mark or seal). The idea behind giving up an office was thus a matter of breaking a seal or annulling a document. The plural form simply follows the regular English pattern for nouns ending in a consonant-sound-free "e," adding "-s."

Synonyms: quitters, departures, leavers

Antonyms: joiners, entrants