aftreden

Betekenis

1. (intransitive) to resign, abdicate
2. (archaic,intransitive) to step down, to walk downward
3. (archaic,intransitive) to walk away
4. (archaic,transitive) to complete traversing (a given distance)

Koppelteken as

af‧tre‧den

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈɑftreːdə(n)/

Etimologie

From Middle Dutch aftreden. Equivalent to af + treden.

Sinne

Na het aftreden van de directeur kwam de manager meer naar de voorgrond .

After the director's resignation, the manager came more to the fore.