Resume

/ɹɪˈzjuːm/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive, now rare) To take back possession of (something).

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, now rare) To take back possession of (something)
2. (transitive, now rare) To summarise.
3. (transitive) To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on.
4. (intransitive) To start again after an interruption or pause.
5. A summary or synopsis.
6. (chiefly Canada, US, 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).

Example Sentences

Ladies and gentlemen, please resume your seats.

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.

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!

By resumption The Government, most likely the State Government, can resume property for the purposes of building a road or a school or some other purpose.

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.

We will resume this discussion tomorrow at nine.

No man wiſhed more for the high establiſhment of the Royal Family than he did ; but he thought the Prince would do himſelf more honour by giving up the trappings of royalty at this moment, than by reſuming them.

Normal service has resumed.

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Word Forms

• resumes
• resuming
• resumed
• résumé
• resumé

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