resume

See also resumé, and résumé

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: rĭzjo͞om', IPA: /rɪˈzjuːm/, SAMPA: /rI"zju:m/
• (US) enPR: rĭz(j)o͞om', IPA: /rɪˈz(j)um/, SAMPA: /rI"z(j)um/

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• (Australia) enPR: rəzjo͞om', IPA: /rəˈzjuːm/, SAMPA: /r@"zju:m/
• Rhymes: -uːm

Etymology 1

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

Verb

resume (third-person singular simple present resumes, present participle resuming, simple past and past participle resumed)

1. (now rare) To take back possession of (something). [from 15th c.]
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 8:

     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!

2. (now rare) To summarise. [from 15th c.]
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 36:

     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.

3. To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on. [from 15th c.]

   We will resume this discussion tomorrow at nine.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Antonyms

• (to start (something) again): suspend

Related terms

• resumption

Translations

start something again that has been stopped or paused

Chinese: Mandarin: 恢復 (zh), 恢复 (zh) (huīfù), 重新開始 (zh), 重新开始 (zh) (chóngxīn kāishǐ) Dutch: hervatten (nl) Finnish: jatkaa, aloittaa uudelleen French: recommencer (fr), reprendre (fr), continuer (fr) German: wiederaufnehmen (de), fortsetzen (de)

Hungarian: folytat (hu) Japanese: 再開する (ja) (さいかいする, saikai-suru) Russian: возобновлять (ru) (vozobnovlját’) impf., возобновить (ru) (vozobnovít’) pf., продолжать (ru) (prodolžát’) impf., продолжить (ru) (prodólžit’) pf. Spanish: reanudar, continuar, reanudarse

Etymology 2

From French résumé

Alternative forms

• résumé, resumé

Noun

Wikipedia resume (plural resumes)

1. (US) A summary of education and employment experience.

Translations

see curriculum vitae

Usage notes

• The spellings résumé and, to a lesser extent, resumé are preferred by dictionaries, while the spelling resume is more likely to be found on the web. See also résumé#Usage notes.

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Danish

Alternative forms

• resumé

Etymology

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

Noun

resume n. (singular definite resumeet, plural indefinite resumeer)

1. summary (a condensed presentation)

Synonyms

• sammenfatning c.
• sammendrag n.

Inflection

    Inflection of resume

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	resume	resumeet	resumeer	resumeerne
genitive	resumes	resumeets	resumeers	resumeernes

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Italian

Verb

resume

1. third-person singular present indicative of resumere

Anagrams

• sumere

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Latin

Verb

resūme

1. second-person singular present active imperative of resūmō

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Portuguese

Verb

resume (infinitive: resumir)

1. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of verb resumir.
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of verb resumir.

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Spanish

Verb

resume (infinitive resumir)

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of resumir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of resumir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of resumir.