英语词汇“relinquish”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINrelinquish

Origin:

1400-1500 Old French relinquir, from Latin relinquere ‘to leave behind’, from linquere ‘to leave’

VERB TABLE

relinquish

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	relinquish
	he, she, it	relinquishes
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	relinquished
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have relinquished
	he, she, it	has relinquished
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had relinquished
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will relinquish
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have relinquished

Continuous Form
Present	I	am relinquishing
	he, she, it	is relinquishing
	you, we, they	are relinquishing
Past	I, he, she, it	was relinquishing
	you, we, they	were relinquishing
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been relinquishing
	he, she, it	has been relinquishing
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been relinquishing
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be relinquishing
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been relinquishing

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Captain Weiss will relinquish command after this mission.
The prince was persuaded to relinquish his claim to the throne.
The United States is pressing the rebel army to relinquish power.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Britain was pulling out and relinquishing responsibility there within thirty days.
Equally some parents in the study quoted above, wanted to say good-bye and relinquish their children in a positive sense.
Finally, Franco simply did not want to relinquish his position.
He relinquished her hand and stood, stretching the tiredness from his muscles.
Slowly, states are beginning to relinquish control of their energy industries.
This is a very fine work and one regrets that, in later life, he relinquished the oil medium.
Vanreenen relinquished his membership and served as secretary for six years; the Honorable Company prohibits members from working for the club.

Longman Language Activatorto give something to someone in authority► hand in/give in

to give something to someone in authority, for example to the police or a teacher: hand/give in something: · When you leave the hotel, please hand in your key at the desk.· Luckily, someone gave in her purse at the lost property office.hand/give something in: · Have you given your English assignment in yet?

► turn in/turn over

to give something such as weapons or important documents to the police or to government officials, when you should not legally have them or you have been officially asked to give them: turn something in/over: · Police are encouraging people to turn illegal weapons in at their local police station.turn in/over something to somebody: · The government is refusing to turn over the documents to the UN inspection team.

► hand over

to give something to someone because they have asked or forced you to: hand over something: · The robbers forced them to hand over the money.· "Give us a bit of your rum," he said. Virginia handed over the bottle. hand something over: · If you don't hand it over I'll shoot!

► hand somebody over/turn somebody over

to give a prisoner to another group of people, especially the police or the people in authority in another country: hand/turn somebody over to somebody: · The terrorists were taken to the airport, where they were handed over to the French authorities.hand/turn over somebody: · The kidnappers promised to go to the embassy and turn over all their hostages within 24 hours.

► pass on

to give information or documents to another person: · Officials admitted that they failed to pass on important information.pass on something to somebody: · It was discovered that he had been passing secrets on to the Russians whilst working at the Pentagon.pass something on to somebody: · He was accused of stealing secret documents and passing them on to the enemy.

► surrender

formal to give your power or possessions to someone else because you have been forced to or have agreed to: · The President has indicated that he intends to surrender power on February 7th.surrender something to somebody: · They promised to abide by the peace agreement and surrender all their weapons to the occupying forces.

► sign away

to let someone else have your possessions or rights by officially signing a legal document: · With a stroke of the pen he signed away his claim to the family estate.· Her husband has tricked her into signing away her rights to the property.sign something away: · "I have no intention whatsoever of signing my inheritance away," she informed him coldly.

► relinquish

to let someone else have your position, power or rights, especially unwillingly: · The Prince was persuaded to relinquish his claim to the throne.· The United States is pressing the rebel army to relinquish power.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► control

· To create a demise or bareboat charter, an owner must relinquish possession, control and navigation of the vessel the charterer.· Stultz relinquished the controls to Gordon, and Slim headed northeast across the open sea.· The Communist party is gradually relinquishing control.· A previous board relinquished control of the $ 81 million facility in July 1996, because of growing financial problems.· Slowly, states are beginning to relinquish control of their energy industries.· Movie companies are understandably uptight about relinquishing control over how products are portrayed by film makers.· Soon, she felt, she would just have to relinquish control and let it carry her.

► position

· Lockwood himself was forced to relinquish his position in 1990.· Otton, the junior who shared time with Kyle Wachholtz at quarterback, started and did not relinquish the position.· He relinquished his position as coach of the Kiwis after the Final and can now concentrate on making Wigan a force again.· Finally, Franco simply did not want to relinquish his position.· This did not, however, mean that he was ready to relinquish his all-powerful position.

► post

· Many thought Dole should at least relinquish his post of Senate majority leader to gain freedom from legislative strictures.

► role

· Conversely, it may not be hard to relinquish certain roles and tasks which were never experienced as rewarding.· His court appearances drew so much flak that he was forced to relinquish his role at Microsoft.· Venables relinquished his managerial role to become chief executive, with Peter Shreeves recalled as manager.· Slowly and reluctantly they were relinquishing the doer role and coming to know what it meant to be responsible for people.· David Cranston will relinquish the role that he has combined with that of chief executive.· The problem of Stewart's role was further complicated by his relinquishing the wicket-keeping role in order to captain the team.

VERB► force

· Lockwood himself was forced to relinquish his position in 1990.· His court appearances drew so much flak that he was forced to relinquish his role at Microsoft.· Republicans have been hoping for a reprimand because that is a punishment that would not force Gingrich automatically to relinquish the speakership.