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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To begin or take up again after interruption: resumed our dinner.
  2. v. To assume, take, or occupy again: The dog resumed its post by the door.
  3. v. To take on or take back again: resumed my original name.
  4. v. To begin again or continue after interruption.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To take again; take back.
  2. To assume or take up again.
  3. To take up again after interruption; begin again: as, to resume an argument or a discourse; to resume specie payments.
  4. To take; assume.
  5. To proceed after interruption, as in a speech; chiefly used in the introductory phrase to resume.

Wiktionary

  1. n. US A summary of education and employment experience.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To take back.
  2. v. To enter upon, or take up again.
  3. v. To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. take up or begin anew
  2. v. assume anew
  3. n. a summary of your academic and work history
  4. v. give a summary (of)
  5. v. return to a previous location or condition
  6. n. short descriptive summary (of events)

Etymologies

  1. From French résumé (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English resumen, from Old French resumer, from Latin resūmere : re-, re- + sūmere, to take; see em- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • myth It's interesting that the noun of this is resumption. Mar 31, 2009

  • Prolagus Razors pain you;
    Rivers are damp;
    Acids stain you;
    And drugs cause cramp.
    Guns aren’t lawful;
    Nooses give;
    Gas smells awful;
    You might as well live.


    ("Resume", by Dorothy Parker) Jun 17, 2008

  • oroboros Curriculum vitae; continue after cessation. Nov 21, 2007

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