resume

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/ɹɪˈzjuːm/

verb 4noun 2

Collocations

ADJ.

able, impressive, questionable

Her impressive resume helped her land the job offer within two weeks.

VERB + RESUME

enclose, give, let's, padded, read, redo, rewrite, seen

I enclosed my resume with a cover letter when I applied for the job last week.

RESUME + NOUN

envelope, estate, factions

She carefully placed her resume in a manila envelope before mailing it to the company.

PREP.

about, after, between, in

After the break, the meeting resumed between the two departments to discuss the budget.

Definitions

verb

To take back possession of (something)

Ladies and gentlemen, please resume your seats.

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.

To summarise.

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.

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

We will resume this discussion tomorrow at nine.

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.

To start again after an interruption or pause.

Normal service has resumed.

1991, The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America, 43 CFR 5451.4, Office of the Federal Register, page 68. Before operations resume, a reduced bond shall be increased to the amount of a full

noun

A summary or synopsis.

He had scanned the resumé of the three previous instalments, and was abut to commence the story[.]

A summary or account of education and employment experiences and qualifications; a curriculum vitae (often for presentation to a potential future employer when applying for a job).

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a summary of your academic and work history

noun — short descriptive summary (of events)

verb — take up or begin anew

restart
re-start

verb — give a summary (of)

summarize
summarise

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Ladies and gentlemen, please resume your seats.

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

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!

Wiktionary

He had scanned the resumé of the three previous instalments, and was abut to commence the story[.]

Wiktionary

We'll resume the meeting after tea.

Tatoeba · #22474

After waiting all day, the workers were still looking for a break in the weather so they could resume the search.

Tatoeba · #27402

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, resume is marked as archaic, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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