N. resignation, retirement, abdication, # renunciation, abjuration, abandonment, relinquishment

V. resign, give up, throw up, lay down, throw up the cards, wash one's hands of, abjure, renounce, forego, disclaim, retract, deny, abrogate, desert, get rid of, abdicate, vacate, vacate one's seat, accept the stewardship of the chiltern hundreds, retire, tender one's resignation

Adj. abdicant

Phr. "othello's occupation's gone"