resume

CEFRB1

/ɹɪˈzjuːm/

verb · noun

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on.
To summarise.
To take back possession of (something)

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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.
1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXVIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sol...
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!
1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 8
He had scanned the resumé of the three previous instalments, and was abut to commence the story[.]
1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XI, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 119
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.
1803, William Woodfall et al., The Parliamentary Register; or an Impartial Report of the Debates that have occurred in the Two Houses of Parliament, volume 2, page 167
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.
2005, Geoff Moore, Essential Real Property, Cavendish Publishing, →ISBN, page 116

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From Anglo-Norman resumer, Middle French resumer, from Latin resumere, from re- + sumere (“to take”).