Answer:

resign

Answer	Crossword Clue
RESIGN	Give up an office
RESIGN	Quit a chess game
RESIGN	Quit work formally

RESIGN	Withdraw formally
RESIGN	Abdicate
RESIGN	Quit
RESIGN	Step down
RESIGN	Step down, or stay for another term
RESIGN	Quit officially
RESIGN	Concede, as in chess
RESIGN	Stay on, or leave

RESIGN	Quit, as one's job
RESIGN	Quit a job
RESIGN	Quit a job formally
RESIGN	Give notice
RESIGN	Quit formally
RESIGN	Withdraw from job.
RESIGN	Retire from office.
RESIGN	Give up formally.

RESIGN	Give up, in chess.
RESIGN	Yield.
RESIGN	Yield
RESIGN	Concede defeat in chess
RESIGN	Call it quits
RESIGN	Surrender at chess
RESIGN	Bow out
RESIGN	Quit one's job

RESIGN	Step down from a position
RESIGN	Terminate a contract ... or extend it
RESIGN	Step down, or re-up
RESIGN	Call it quits forever
RESIGN	Quit, as a job
RESIGN	Step down, in a way
RESIGN	Accept the inevitable
RESIGN	Leave office

RESIGN	One way to avoid being fired
RESIGN	Quit ... or agree to keep going