resignee
Americannoun
Usage
What does resignee mean? A resignee is a person who has resigned or is in the process of resigning—quitting one’s job or giving up one’s position.Resignee is fairly formal and isn’t commonly used. It’s most likely to be used in a legal context, such as by the human resources department to refer to a former employee. It can also be used to refer to a theoretical person, such as in a policy about resignees.Example: It shouldn’t be the responsibility of the resignee to interview their replacement.
Etymology
Origin of resignee
Example Sentences
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These were not just career Democrats either; resignee Danielle Sassoon, a U.S. attorney, was a decorated conservative who had just joined the Trump administration in January.
From Slate
Greg Smith—the loudest resignee in Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s history—made sure of that.
So far, we have had four major resignations in the wake of the scandal: • Andy Coulson, Prime Minister's director of communications, Friday 21 January 2011 | full statement• Rebekah Brooks, News International chief executive, Friday 15 July, 2011 | • Les Hinton, CEO of Dow Jones & Company, Friday 15 July, 2011 | • Sir Paul Stephenson, Metropolitan police commissioner, Sunday 17 July 2011 | And with each statement, the language has been carefully planned and calibrated to say exactly what resignee wants to get across to the world.
From The Guardian
Arguably, Stephenson - as the one resignee who didn't work for News Corp - had more he wanted to say and it possibly unbalances the comparison with the other statements Using Wordle.net, we've mapped each statement, above.
From The Guardian
If Mr. Kroger Senior had been the only resignee, Cincinnatians, fond of their nation-spanning company, would have excused it on account of his 70 years and the need of aquiring a new wife, 36.
From Time Magazine Archive
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