Resume Meaning
/ɹɪˈzjuːm/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo take back possession of (something)
verbTo summarise.
Sentence Examples
We'll resume the meeting after tea.
Now, resume reading where you left off.
Let's resume reading where we left off last week.
CEFR Practice Quiz
After a short break for lunch, the workers will ____ their construction work.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The talks were expected to ____ the following morning after both sides agreed to a brief recess.
Word Origin & History
From Anglo-Norman resumer, Middle French resumer, from Latin resumere, from re- + sumere (“to take”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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 sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC:
"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:
"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:
"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."
— 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 36:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After a short break for lunch, the workers will ____ their construction work.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The talks were expected to ____ the following morning after both sides agreed to a brief recess.