resume
/ɹɪˈzjʉːm/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.12 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on.
Transitive verb
noun
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).
Australian usage; Canadian usage; American usage
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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!"
- "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."
- "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."
- "We will resume this discussion tomorrow at nine."
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman resumer, Middle French resumer, from Latin resumere, from re- + sumere (“to take”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹɪˈzjʉːm/
- British English: /ˈɹɛz.(j)ʊˌmeɪ/