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Resume   /rɪzˈum/  /rizˈum/  /rˈɛzəmˌeɪ/   Listen
Resume

verb
(past & past part. resumed;pres. part. resuming)
1.
Take up or begin anew.  Synonyms: re-start, restart.
2.
Return to a previous location or condition.  Synonym: take up.
3.
Assume anew.  "Resume an office" , "Resume one's duties"
4.
Give a summary (of).  Synonyms: sum up, summarise, summarize.  "I will now summarize"
noun
1.
Short descriptive summary (of events).  Synonyms: sketch, survey.
2.
A summary of your academic and work history.  Synonyms: curriculum vitae, CV.





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"Resume" Quotes from Famous Books



... prefer living thoughtlessly; and when they even try to enter upon spiritual meditations, they soon feel discouraged, and, often distrusting their own powers, throw up the difficult task half way, to resume the course of a ...
— A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth • Isaac Samuele Reggio
... Although the breeze died away soon afterwards, it had been so stiff while it lasted, that we were carried over the greater part of our way before it fell calm again; so that, when the flapping of the sail against the mast told us that it was time to resume the oars, we were not much more than a ...
— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne
... effort and not without some pain and a few groans on the part of the battered young soldier he finally was able, with his brother's help, to resume his proper place. The night wind blowing full in his face was most refreshing and served to clear his head and ...
— Fighting in France • Ross Kay
... which was now over, she could have declared to him the real state of her mind. He had, as it were, taken complete possession of her, by right of the deed of gift which she had made of herself that morning. She had endeavoured to resume the gift, but had altogether failed. She declared to herself that she was weak, impotent, purposeless; but she admitted, on the other hand, that he had displayed more of power than she had ever guessed at his possessing. A woman ...
— An Old Man's Love • Anthony Trollope
... sunshine, and he rose in his saddle and looked to see what it might be. After a moment he made out five mounted troopers, moving about on the crest of the hill, the sun slanting on stirrup metal and lance-tip. As he was about to resume his meditations, something about these lancers caught his eye—something that did not seem quite right—he couldn't tell what. Of course they were French lancers, they could be nothing else, here in the rear of the army, but still they were ...
— Lorraine - A romance • Robert W. Chambers


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