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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
resume
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
restore/resume relations (=begin them again after they were stopped or interrupted)
▪ Kenya and Uganda agreed to restore full diplomatic relations.
resume negotiations (=start them again)
▪ The pressure is on Israel and the Palestinians to resume peace negotiations.
resume your duties (=start doing your job again)
▪ She hopes to be well enough to resume her duties next week.
resume your seatformal (= sit down again)
▪ We resumed our seats for the second half of the play.
talks resume/are resumed
▪ Talks resumed in Geneva on April 19 after a month’s break.
talks resume/are resumed
▪ Talks resumed in Geneva on April 19 after a month’s break.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
activity
▪ Nature resumes its activities, the patterns of behaviour you disrupted by your arrival.
▪ Four of five people with clinical depression can improve and resume daily activity, usually within weeks.
▪ The plates realigned and subduction resumed, sparking volcanic activity which spewed forth the granite rock covering much of the Sierras.
career
▪ Friends believe he may take the post rather than wait for a by-election to resume his career.
▪ Supreme Court overthrew his conviction, and he resumed his boxing career and transcended sports.
▪ It's understandable that she would want to resume her acting career after having children.
▪ Alexander has told friends she intends to follow through on a desire to resume her acting career.
▪ The star, who won an Oscar for Paper Moon at the age of nine, was desperate to resume her career.
▪ Voice over Northampton's Derek Redmond, is to resume his athletics career.
▪ In the 1920s Pearson resumed his acting career but also began publishing short stories, essays, and journalism.
climb
▪ Pull hard, and it will resume its climb.
▪ Then investors regained their balance, and the market resumed its upward climb.
▪ The funicular had resumed its climb, apparently smoothly enough.
▪ P and Nasdaq resumed their climbs after the July 19 drop -- but money flow into both kept declining.
conversation
▪ We resumed conversation almost as if we had never left off.
▪ After a decent interval, the three of them resumed their conversation, much to my relief.
▪ They resumed their conversation, chatting away late into the evening.
▪ As the weather changes, the boat begins to roll a little, and the tables in the bar resume their metallic conversation.
▪ Then I resumed my conversation with the Mahommedans.
duty
▪ He will resume duties next week following the apology.
▪ The state has replaced it and the family will not resume these duties even if the state were to withdraw.
▪ Mitterrand, 75, who left a Paris hospital yesterday, will resume his duties soon.
▪ Coetsee was expected to resume his duties after he had recuperated.
▪ Then after a hearty sneeze, Fagg appeared ready to resume his duties as interviewee.
▪ He is expected to resume duties next week.
▪ I spoke to Michael some time ago, he's getting better, and I look forward to him resuming his duties.
flight
▪ There was a gentle, left-right shuffle, then it resumed yaw-free flight.
job
▪ Now able to resume his job as a postman, he owes his life to the paramedics.
▪ Herman brought the same kind of resume to the job that her predecessors did.
▪ Their onerous errand completed, the men resumed their jobs.
▪ Employers could post job openings and browse through the resumes of job seekers.
journey
▪ As they prepared to leave and resume their homeward journey, Jack decided to take a last look around the parcels office.
▪ He listened completely, and when he resumed his journey, found that one hundred years had passed by.
▪ The passengers and crew had transferred to the Stratocruiser and resumed their journey more than 3 hours behind schedule.
▪ So we left and resumed our journey.
▪ It was snowing on the day we resumed our northward journey.
▪ The gentleman returned to his compartment and resumed his journey, puzzled by his strange experience.
life
▪ But then they had to come back and resume their lives.
▪ Some patients did emerge from iron lungs and resume their normal lives, fully recovered.
▪ Then, in May 1823, the hoped-for pardon arrived and he was able to resume a normal life at Kinloch.
▪ Within a few months she was able to resume her normal life with new coping skills and a greater sense of self-affirmation.
▪ It might be nice, mightn't it, to get back home and resume her quiet ordinary life?
▪ Power and phone service were being restored; daily life was resuming.
▪ I feel that you need a complete rest before you can resume normal life.
▪ He has vowed to solve the crime almost as often as he has vowed to resume the life he used to live.
negotiation
▪ The delegations again failed to agree on when or where the negotiations should resume.
▪ Settlement negotiations may resume Monday, sources say.
▪ A round of hostilities could develop that would diminish the chances of the negotiations resuming.
▪ Clinton said yesterday negotiations would resume no later than next Wednesday.
▪ But the Hebron negotiations resumed within 24 hours.
position
▪ The wings then resume their normal position when the adult emerges.
▪ Her body resumes its fetal position and Jakhaila relaxes into sleep.
▪ Her resume lists pilot positions with Los Angeles-based Alpha Airlines.
role
▪ His leadership role was taken from him and he resumed his role as physician.
service
▪ Otherwise, however, the pressure to resume normal service was wide and intense.
▪ No commercial airlines have yet resumed service.
▪ Finally, permission was given for the ferry to resume its scheduled services from 9am today.
▪ Because of a coal crisis, passenger services ceased over the whole line as from 15 January 1951 and were never resumed.
study
▪ He resumed his studies at the Royal College but was unable to concentrate.
▪ She decided to return east and resume her studies at Columbiato pick up her life where she had left off.
▪ She shrugged and resumed her morose study of the green glass which stood in front of her.
▪ The company had wanted him to transfer to London, in order to resume the computer studies he had been taking at school.
work
▪ Once it is forgotten again, she resumes her work in the spartan room allocated to her by a local co-op.
▪ B.. Present a formal written resume of your work and employment experience, appropriate for future job searches.
▪ He resumed work at Beaumaris in 1306 but died before May 1309.
▪ Sedgwick and McGean carried with them copies of their resumes, rental and work histories, credit reports and life stories.
▪ Mahathir resumed work on April 3.
▪ Blaming a personality clash within the department for her ultimatum, she said she would resume work when her back was better.
▪ Dixon returned to Durham, resuming his work as a surveyor.
▪ But when he had recovered sufficiently he wanted to resume work as possible on his play.
■ VERB
schedule
▪ The peace talks were scheduled to resume in Caracas on July 15.
▪ It is scheduled to resume production on Tuesday.
▪ The Senate is scheduled to resume consideration of the bill Wednesday.
▪ S., President Bill Clinton and Republican congressional leaders are scheduled to resume their budget talks later today.
▪ The talks are scheduled to resume on Tuesday in Chicago.
▪ Republican leaders are scheduled to resume budget talks with the Clinton administration Wednesday.
▪ Debate on the measure was interrupted by the tax cut bill but is scheduled to resume after the recess.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "As I was saying," resumed Dahlberg.
▪ Collins was so seriously injured that he was unable to resume his career.
▪ He said no more, and resumed reading his newspaper.
▪ Sherman resumed his walk toward First Avenue.
▪ The jurors are anxious to resume their normal lives again.
▪ The trial will resume on Wednesday morning.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Fifteen minutes go by, and the noise resumes, gently, slowly, and in my direction.
▪ Normal service has since been resumed.
▪ Otherwise, however, the pressure to resume normal service was wide and intense.
▪ Pumping operations would resume this morning.
▪ Stories, however, have circulated that the Bush administration may be more open than was President Clinton to resuming diplomatic relations.
▪ The course of power and enterprise has resumed.
▪ Which is handy for large files as it's faster and can resume broken downloads.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He gave a resume of the year's work and wished the Society another successful year.
▪ Instead, it attempts to give a brief resume of the current legal position.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Resume

Resume \Re*sume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resumed;p. pr. & vb. n. Resuming.] [L. resumere, resumptum; pref. re- re- + sumere to take: cf. F. r['e]sumer. See Assume, Redeem.]

  1. To take back.

    The sun, like this, from which our sight we have, Gazed on too long, resumes the light he gave.
    --Denham.

    Perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  2. To enter upon, or take up again.

    Reason resumed her place, and Passion fled.
    --Dryden.

  3. To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
resume

early 15c., "to regain, take back;" mid-15c., "recommence, continue, begin again after interruption," from Middle French resumer (14c.) and directly from Latin resumere "take again, take up again, assume again," from re- "again" (see re-) + sumere "take up" (compare assume). Meaning "begin again" is mid-15c. Intransitive sense "proceed after interruption" is from 1802. Related: Resumed; resuming.

resume

also résumé, 1804, "a summary," from French résumé, noun use of past participle of Middle French resumer "to sum up," from Latin resumere (see resume (v.)). Meaning "biographical summary of a person's career" is 1940s.

Wiktionary
resume

Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context now rare English) To take back possession of (something). (from 15th c.) 2 (context now rare English) To summarise. (from 15th c.) 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.) Etymology 2

alt. (context US English) A summary of education and employment experience. n. (context US English) A summary of education and employment experience.

resumé

n. A summary of education and employment experience.

WordNet
resume

  1. n. short descriptive summary (of events) [syn: sketch, survey]

  2. a summary of your academic and work history [syn: curriculum vitae, CV]

  3. v. take up or begin anew; "We resumed the negotiations" [syn: restart]

  4. return to a previous location or condition; "The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it" [syn: take up]

  5. assume anew; "resume a title"; "resume an office"; "resume one's duties"

  6. give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize" [syn: sum up, summarize, summarise]

Wikipedia
Résumé

A résumé (, or ; less frequently or ; ), also spelled resume, is a document used by a person to present their backgrounds and skills. Résumés can be used for a variety of reasons, but most often they are used to secure new employment. A typical résumé contains a "summary" of relevant job experience and education, as its French origin (and its translation into Spanish as "resumen") implies. The résumé is usually one of the first items, along with a cover letter and sometimes an application for employment, which a potential employer sees regarding the job seeker and is typically used to screen applicants, often followed by an interview. The curriculum vitae (CV) used for academic purposes in the UK (and in other European countries) is more akin to the résumé—a shorter, summary version of one's education and experience—than to the longer and more detailed CV that is expected in U.S. academic circles. Generally, the résumé is substantially shorter than a CV in English Canada, the U.S. and Australia.

As has been indicated above, the word résumé comes from the French word résumé meaning "summarized" or "summary". Leonardo da Vinci is credited with the first résumé though his "résumé" takes the form of a letter written about 1481–1482 to a potential employer, Ludovico Sforza.

Résumé (album)

:Résumé (the colon is part of the title) is a collection of experimental tracks by John Taylor of Duran Duran and Jonathan Elias. The tracks were recorded in 1985 and 1986, and collected and released through John Taylor's website, TrustTheProcess.com as a CD-R in 1999.

Resumé (magazine)

Resumé is a Swedish language fortnightly news magazine published in Stockholm, Sweden. The magazine features articles about mass media and marketing communications.

Résumé (Eberhard Weber album)

Résumé is a live album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber recorded at various locations between 1990 and 2007 and released on the ECM label.

Usage examples of "resume".

The pious labor which had been suspended near twenty years since the death of Constantius, was vigorously resumed, and finally accomplished, by the zeal of Theodosius.

Then suddenly they were gone, all stopped together, and the water resumed its flat oily calm, only the smell of sulphur hanging on the air to remind us that we were aground on a submarine volcano that was fissured with gas-vents like a colander.

Suffolk and Norfolk, alleging that the bill, if passed into a law, would render it impossible to bring fresh provisions from those counties to London, as the supply depended absolutely upon the quickness of conveyance, the further consideration of it was postponed to a longer day, and never resumed in the sequel: so that the attempt miscarried.

Reemerged from the labor of refounding the stressed chord of the sixth lane, he arrowed west on the winds of high altitude, his intent to resume the interrupted assistance he still owed the Guardian of Mirthlvain.

But Navdaq turned away, the conversation over, and resumed its trek to the Autocrat, leading Jane way, Neelix, and Tuvok himself while the Vulcan began finally to come to peace inside himself, suppressing the powerful emotions behind the mask of logic and restoring his natural equilibrium.

Barney said reflexively, and resumed his tinkering with the defective autonomic scoop.

It balked, then resumed its belabored pace through the deepening snowdrifts.

At length, however, despite the obstinate resistance of the demon, the superior succeeded in dedicating her body also to God, and thus victorious her features resumed their usual expression, and smiling as if nothing had happened, she turned to Barre and said that there was no vestige of Satan left in her.

The bailiff, seeing that fresh plots against Grandier were being formed, sent for him and warned him that Barre had come over from Chinon the day before, and had resumed his exorcisms at the convent, adding that it was currently reported in the town that the mother superior and Sister Claire were again tormented by devils.

Upon this, Barre dreading more questions from the bystanders, hastily resumed his own catechism by asking who was the sorcerer.

The hand in her crotch began or resumed its motion before the picture blanked, revealing the original blue wall.

When she was gone, Anthony and Blitz resumed their discussion of what to do next in North Korea.

It was, thought Brat, exactly the reaction of someone who has heard a telephone ring: the involuntary pause and then the resumed movement.

The Bravo resumed his disguise with the readiness of one long practised in its use, but with a composure that was not so easily disconcerted as that of the more sensitive senator.

He now resumed his breakneck speed, and in another little while they came to the botanical gardens which Morton, had he been conscious, would have recognized as just about where Bray and he had been the previous afternoon.