Reversion

Quick meaning: Reversion is a noun meaning The act or process of reverting something.

Meaning

The act or process of reverting something.

More Meanings

1. The action of returning to a former condition or practice.
2. The fact of being turned the reverse way.
3. The action of turning something the reverse way.
4. (property law) The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
5. (property law) An estate which has been returned in this manner.
6. (property law) The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
7. The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: reversal

With its lavish brass and copperwork, this [bright chocolate] seemed a trifle too gay and unbecoming for a G.W.R. locomotive, and apparently the Company soon shared this view for there was a reversion to the standard Brunswick green.

Why nothing capital of my master's wardrobe has drop'd lately—but I could give you a mortgage on some of his winter Cloaths with equity of redemption before November or—you shall have the reversion—of the French velvet, or a post obit on the Blue and Silver—

Each day too slew it’s^([sic]) thousands six or seven, Till at the crowning carnage—Waterloo— They threw their pens down in divine disgust, The page was so besmeared with blood and dust. […] (Here, Sathan’s sole good work deserves insertion— ’Tis, that he has both Generals in reversion).

Word Forms

• reversions

Synonyms for reversion

Depending on context, synonyms include deconversion, regression, restitution, restoration, reversal, backmutation.

Antonyms for reversion

Common opposites include conversion, small.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include regression, throwback, regress, retroversion, retrogression, relapsing.

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