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resumption

[ ri-zuhmp-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
  2. the act or fact of taking up or going on with again, as of something interrupted.
  3. the act of taking again or recovering something given up or lost.


resumption

/ rɪˈzʌmpʃən /

noun

  1. the act of resuming or beginning again
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • reˈsumptive, adjective
  • reˈsumptively, adverb
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Other Words From

  • nonre·sumption noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of resumption1

1400–50; late Middle English < Middle French < Late Latin resūmptiōn- (stem of resūmptiō ), equivalent to Latin resūmpt ( us ) (past participle of resūmere to resume 1 ) + -iōn- -ion
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Word History and Origins

Origin of resumption1

C15: via Old French from Late Latin resumptiō , from Latin resūmere to resume
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Example Sentences

In Europe, the resumption of vacation travel in summer is thought to have fanned the current second wave.

From Fortune

That’s why many producers have taken precaution in their production resumptions.

From Digiday

The new lawsuit seeks the resumption of the existing rulemaking process for a new permanent safety standard that would apply only to workers at health-care facilities.

“We are continuing to work with the FDA to facilitate review of the information needed to make a decision regarding resumption of the US trial,” AstraZeneca said in a statement.

From Fortune

We’re now just one week away from the resumption of the NBA season.

The end of the embargo and resumption of diplomatic relations with Cuba could transform Major League Baseball.

Next Monday sees the resumption of a full, proper working week after the National Day holiday.

Elements of the pro-Israel lobby have also been on Capitol Hill lobbying for a resumption of U.S. aid to Egypt.

The next few weeks are critical in Egypt as to whether we see a real resumption of violence.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is to announce a resumption of talks on Friday!

More than two hundred years had since elapsed without any Resumption Act.

Several laws for the resumption of Crown lands were passed by the Parliaments of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

A perfect silence succeeded, during which we sat speechless, awaiting a resumption of the clamour.

But though she fought on, the resumption of the war in the autumn failed to reverse the fortune of arms.

The connected change in the Bank of England by the resumption of specie payments supports this view.

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