résumé

See also resume, and resumé

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• resume, resumé

Etymology

From French résumé, past participle of résumer (“to summarize”), from Latin resumere (“to take back”); compare resume.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɹɛ.zʊˌmeɪ/, /ˈɹɛz.uːˌmeɪ/; SAMPA: /"r\E.zU%meI/, /"rEz.u:.meI/
• (US) IPA: /ˈɹɛ.zə.meɪ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

résumé (plural résumés)

1. (North America, Australian) A curriculum vitae; an account of one’s employment history and qualifications (often for presentation to a potential future employer when applying for a job.)
   • 1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine

     The match between Stiegler and Xanadu was doubly unlikely; not only was Stiegler happily unemployed, but the Xanadu programmers did not seem to place high value on management personnel. As Stiegler tells it, the original plan during the first days at Autodesk was to get somebody with a good résumé and stick him in a closet until somebody from Autodesk came to visit, at which point the obedient manager could be trotted out to prove that the hackers were under control. This was hardly Stiegler's style.

2. (now chiefly UK) A summary or synopsis.
   • 1999, The Guardian, 14 Jun 1999:

     However, a brief résumé of recent weddings, royal and otherwise, reveals that Edward and Sophie's big day could be in danger of being badly out of step.

Synonyms

• (account of education and employment): curriculum vitae, CV
• (summary or synopsis): précis

Usage notes

Usage notes

In Canada, resumé is the sole spelling given by the Canadian Oxford Dictionary. In the US, there are three major spellings of this word: résumé, resumé, and resume. All three are in common usage and all three are occasionally contested. The usual justification for each is usually as follows: resume is an acceptable spelling, because modern English does not usually have diacritic marks except when borrowing terms or as an optional spelling to indicate a breach of standard pronunciation rules. Compare cafe, emigre, and nee, all of which are commonly spelled with and without accent marks. The spelling resume is more likely to be found on the web. resumé follows a practice wherein a final e is accented to indicate that it is pronounced where it would usually remain silent. Compare touché, café, and especially saké and maté, where there is no etymological precedent for the accent. The acute accent over the first e, on the other hand, serves no function in English. résumé follows a practice of retaining accents in borrowed words, which some may consider affected. Compare protégé, émigré, née, and élan. Certain other French words with two accented e's have the same usage conflict, though the relative infrequency of the words in common usage causes the conflict to be less pronounced. Also, some spell-checking tools prescribe against resumé, suggesting résumé instead, which may affect the perception of the correctness of the two spellings of the term.

Translations

summary

Catalan: resum (ca) m., sumari (ca) m. French: résumé (fr) m. German: Zusammenfassung (de) f.

Japanese: レジュメ (ja) (rejyume) Mandarin: 简历 (cmn) Slovene: povzetek (sl)

curriculum vitae

Catalan: currículum (ca) m. French: curriculum vitæ (fr) m. German: Lebenslauf (de) m. Hungarian: önéletrajz (hu)

Icelandic: ferilskrá (is) f. Japanese: 履歴書 (ja) (rirekisho) Portuguese: currículo (pt) Slovene: življenjepis (sl)

Quotations

• For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʁe.zy.me/

Verb

résumé m. (f résumée, m plural résumés, f plural résumées)

1. Past participle of résumer

Noun

résumé m. (plural résumés)

1. summary, résumé

Derived terms

• en résumé

Anagrams

• mesure, mesuré
• meures
• remues, remués