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resume
1[ ri-zoom ]
verb (used with object)
- to take up or go on with again after interruption; continue:
to resume a journey.
- to take or occupy again:
to resume one's seat.
- to take or assume use or practice of again:
to resume her maiden name.
- to take back:
to resume the title to a property.
verb (used without object)
- to go on or continue after interruption:
The dancing is about to resume.
- to begin again.
resume
2[ rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey ]
noun
- a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.
- a summing up; summary.
résumé
1/ ˈrɛzjʊˌmeɪ /
noun
- a short descriptive summary, as of events
- See curriculum vitaeanother name for curriculum vitae
resume
2/ rɪˈzjuːm /
verb
- to begin again or go on with (something adjourned or interrupted)
- tr to occupy again, take back, or recover
to resume possession
to resume one's seat
- tr to assume (a title, office, etc) again
to resume the presidency
- archaic.to summarize; make a résumé of
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Derived Forms
- reˈsumer, noun
- reˈsumable, adjective
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Other Words From
- re·sum·a·ble adjective
- re·sum·er noun
- un·re·sumed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Yet somewhere between soundchecks and read-throughs, he still finds time to keep diversifying his resumé.
The Temple Mount has earned that resumé of instability through an entangled religious history.
His resumé was nonetheless light when he won a Senate seat only a year after retiring from the NBA.
I give the following resumé of some remarks I made at the Basle Alliance meeting.
The volume is not a mere resumé of others' opinions; but the author has made the topics of which he treats his own.
A very pleasing resumé of the life and works of our gifted countrywoman.
It is, indeed, almost the resumé of the entire life of many poor Gipsies during the summer.
This conclusion is a short resumé of Papal history, which will somewhat surprise the readers of Ranke and Gibbon.
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