Pronunciation Verb
resume (resumes, present participle resuming; past and past participle resumed)
- (now rare) To take back possession of (something). [from 15th c.]
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 28:
- As to the advice you give, to resume my estate, I am determined not to litigate with my father, let what will be the consequence to myself.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 8:
- For after that initiation it was impossible to attach any profound importance to the notion of dying. All individual deaths had been resumed by the death of God!
- 2005, Geoff Moore, Essential Real Property, Cavendish Publishing, ISBN 1876905174, page 116.
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- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 28:
- (now rare) To summarise. [from 15th c.]
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 36:
- He […] used to say that each separate death had taught him something new about death, and that he was going to resume this knowledge in a philosophic essay about dying.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 36:
- To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on. [from 15th c.]
- Antonyms: suspend
- 1803, William Woodfall et al., The Parliamentary Register; or an Impartial Report of the Debates that have occurred in the Two Houses of Parliament, vol. 2, page 167
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- 1991, The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America, 43 CFR 5451.4, Office of the Federal Register, page 68.
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- We will resume this discussion tomorrow at nine.
- French: recommencer, reprendre, continuer
- German: wiederaufnehmen, fortsetzen
- Italian: riprendere, continuare, ricominciare, portare avanti
- Portuguese: retomar, continuar
- Russian: возобновля́ть
- Spanish: reanudar, retomar, continuar, reanudarse
resume (plural resumes)
- A summary or synopsis. [from 18th c.]
- Synonyms: précis
- (chiefly, North America, Australia) A summary or account of education and employment experiences and qualifications, a curriculum vitae (often for presentation to a potential future employer when applying for a job). [from 20th c.]
- Synonyms: curriculum vitae, CV
- French: résumé
- German: Zusammenfassung
- Spanish: resumen
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