Resume

Definition: Resume

Resume

Noun

1. Short descriptive summary (of events).

2. A summary of your academic and work history.

Verb

1. Take up or begin anew; "We resumed the negotiations".

2. Return to a previous location or condition: "The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it".

3. Assume anew; "resume a title"; "resume an office"; "resume one's duties".

4. Give a summary (of); "he summed up his results".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "resume" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Post & Telecom

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Resume

Beginning

Begin again, begin de novo; start afresh, make a fresh start, take it from the top, shuffle the cards, reshuffle the cards, resume, recommence.

Change

Verb: change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume.

Compendium

Recapitulation, resume, review.

Repetition

Rehearse; do over again, say over again; ring the changes on; harp on the same string; din in the ear, drum in the ear; conjugate in all its moods tenses and inflexions, begin again, go over the same ground, go the same round, never hear the last of; resume, return to, recapitulate, reword.

Restoration

Verb: return to the original state; recover, rally, revive; come come to, come round, come to oneself; pull through, weather the storm, be oneself again; get well,get round, get the better of, get over, get about; rise from one's ashes, rise from the grave; survive; (outlive); resume, reappear; come to, come to life again; live again, rise again.

Taking

Retake, resume; recover.

Crosswords: Resume

French (resume), Swedish (memorandum, resume, summary).

At least it'll look good on your college resume. (Welcome to the Dollhouse; writing credit: Todd Solondz)

And resume any time to think of the next step we'd take (World At Your Feet; performing artist: Fabian)

Two hearts that lost the beat will now resume (Twist Of Fate; performing artist: Olivia Newton-John)

You work for a defense contractor if your resume is on a diskette in your back pocket. (references; author: unknown)

The Resume (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• CareerJournal.com Resume Guide for $100,000 Plus Executive Jobs (reference)

• Damn Good Resume Catalog: A Crash Course in Resume Writing (Damn Good Resume Guide) (reference)

• Electronic Federal Resume Guidebook (reference)

• Federal Resume Guidebook (reference)

• Top Secret Executive Resumes: What It Takes to Create the Perfect Resume for the Best Top-Level Positions (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Bc Orders In Council Resume (reference)

• Resume (reference)

• Water Rights Resume (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Market Yourself with a Video Resume (reference)

• The Mafia: An Expose - Resume (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Resume (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Winway Corporation Winway Resume Paper Kit White 100-Sheets 50-Envelopes W/Resume Sw (reference)

• Resume Maker Deluxe 9 [DOWNLOAD] (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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And if we shall not have corrected the transgression (or, in the event of our being out of the realm, if our justiciar shall not have corrected it) within forty days, reckoning from the time it has been intimated to us (or to our justiciar, if we should be out of the realm), the four barons aforesaid shall refer that matter to the rest of the five and twenty barons, and those five and twenty barons shall, together with the community of the whole realm, distrain and distress us in all possible ways, namely, by seizing our castles, lands, possessions, and in any other way they can, until redress has been obtained as they deem fit, saving harmless our own person, and the persons of our queen and children; and when redress has been obtained, they shall resume their old relations towards us. (reference)

When the legislative hath put the execution of the laws, they make, into other hands, they have a power still to resume it out of those hands, when they find cause, and to punish for any maladministration against the laws. (Second Treatise of Government)

If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office. (reference)

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But he recovered himself in a moment, and beckoned to the Emperor to resume his place at the table

He was about to resume his course when he perceived a little greyish packet on the ground at his feet

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Health

Ask your doctor when you can resume driving. (references)

The person may snort or gasp, then resume snoring. (references)

But when they do, their interest in sex almost invariably diminishes until they resume the injections. (references)

Business

Mortgage lending is expected to resume growth after the current recession. (references)

This growth has slowed down during the last two years but is expected to resume in the coming months. (references)

The transmission grid in place today is adequate to meet current demand, but will require additional investment when Argentina and Mercosur resume strong growth. (references)

Children

Mongolia

Those who have been injured in industrial accidents have the right to be reemployed when ready to resume work, and the Government offers free retraining in 6 fields at a central technical school. (references)

Cape Verde

The measure seeks to enable such students to resume their studies at later date because students who drop out because of pregnancy or nursing usually remain out too long to be readmitted into the age group that the law permits to receive free education. (references)

Civil Liberties

Pakistan

On October 6, all of those arrested were released and Mohasib was permitted to resume publication. (references)

Economic History

Sierra Leone

However, DDR did not resume, and fighting continued. (references)

Sudan

In 1976, the U.S. decided to resume economic assistance to the Sudan. (references)

Moldova

The law helped resume relations with the international financial institutions. (references)

Human Rights

Albania

The officer was not permitted to resume his duties. (references)

Philippines

Direct talks were stalled, but both sides reportedly were working to resume negotiations. (references)

Lesotho

The trials for the killing of the Deputy Prime Minister were scheduled to resume in February 2002. (references)

Political Economy

ALGERIA

Recently, however, Algeria has renewed efforts to resume negotiations. (references)

Taiwan

In the meantime, the PRC insists that the Taiwan authorities accept its position that there is only "one China" before cross-strait talks can resume. (references)

Israel

Negotiations with Syria were high on the agenda of the Israeli government formed by Ehud Barak after his election in 1999. In December of that year President Clinton announced that Barak and Syria's president Assad had agreed to resume negotiations from the point at which they had been suspended in 1996. The talks held in Washington in December 1999 and Shepherdstown in January 2000 involved the Israeli Prime Minister and Syrian Foreign Minister. (references)

Political Rights

United Kingdom

In July the conflict intensified, when David Trimble, reflecting disquiet within his Ulster Unionist Party, resigned his position as First Minister, promising to resume office only after the IRA had begun weapons decommissioning. (references)

Congo

While no agreement was reached by year's end, the participants agreed to resume the dialog in South Africa in February 2002. In March 2000, church groups attempted to hold a National Consultation, an initiative that the Government seized to carry out its own agenda; it filled meetings with its own supporters. (references)

Burma

Late in 2000, with encouragement from then-U.N. Special Representative Ismail Razali, the Government initiated talks with Aung San Suu Kyi that produced some relaxation in the restrictions on the NLD. In addition the NLD was able to resume some activities, and press attacks on the NLD and Aung San Suu Kyi ceased. (references)

Trade

Korea

In light of economic difficulties in Korea, OPIC announced in June of 1998 that it would resume operations in Korea. (references)

Travel

Chad

The application for a work permit should include a resume or curriculum vitae along with a copy of the applicant's passport and entry visa. (references)

Greece

The Greek business community observes a long, uninterrupted hiatus beginning in late June, throughout July and August, and does not resume until after the Thessaloniki International Fair in September. (references)

Women

China

Social and familial pressure also has grown for women to resume their traditional roles as wives and mothers. (references)

Worker Rights

Ghana

On August 22, POTAG called off a 4-week strike in order to resume negotiations with the Government over a salary dispute. (references)

Croatia

After the public sector negotiations were completed, the Government instructed HEP and HP managements to resume negotiations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "resume": autobiographic resume ♦ news resume ♦ resume message ♦ resume one's health ♦ resume one's seat ♦ resume possession of smth. ♦ resume the conversation ♦ resume the thread of a tale ♦ resume work. Additional references.

Albanian

rifilloj (continue, recommence, reopen), rezyme, përfundim (afterpiece, closing, closure, completion, conclusion, consequence, consummation, denouement, derivation, development, eduction, effect, end product, event, expiration, finality, finding, finish, fulfillment, fulfilment, harvest, issue, job, lapse, last, offshoot, offspring, outcome, output, perfecting, performance, result, rider, total, train, upshot, windup), konkluzion (conclusion, corollary, eduction, finding, illation, inference, opinion, peroration, rider). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سيرة ذاتية, ‏عاد للعمل, ‏خلاصة (abstract, docket, epitome, essence, extract, extraction, gist, outline, pith, precis, quintessence, recap, recapitulation, substance, summary, summation), ‏إستعاد (bring back, encore, give back, recapture, reconquer, recoup, recover, recuperate, regain, retrieve, scavenge, take), ‏إستأنف (challenge, continue, renew, reopen), ‏إسترد (call, evict, get back, give back, recall, recapture, reconquer, recoup, recover, recuperate, regain, retake, retrieve, return, take back, withdraw), ‏أوجز (condense, outline, speak short), ‏بدأ من جديد. (various references)

Bulgarian 

резюмирам (epitomize, precis, recap, recapitulate, skeletonize, summarize), възвръщам си (get back, recapture, redeem, regain, repossess, retrieve), вземам отново, обобщение (generalization, round up, summary), обобщавам (colligate, generalize, summarize), заемам отново, продължавам (carry on, continue, extend, go ahead, go on, keep, keep on, last, lengthen, proceed, produce, prolong, prosecute, protract, push on, reach, spread, stretch), почвам отново, подновявам (do up, furbish, novelise, novelize, redintegrate, refurbish, renew, renovate, reopen, reproduce, restore, revamp, take up, vamp). (various references)

Chinese 

简历 (cv), 摘由 (high points). (various references)

Czech

resumé (abstract, sketch, summary), zaèít znovu (start afresh), shrnutí (recapitulation, summary), pokraèovat v, obsah (area, content, contents, purport, sum, table of contents, volume), obnovit (give back, re establish, rebuild, redintegrate, regenerate, reinstate, renew, renovate, reproduce, restore, retrieve, revamp, revive, rub up), životopis (biography, curriculum vitae, life). (various references)

Danish

resume-meddelelse. (various references)

Dutch

resume, tabula rasa maken, met een schone lei beginnen, levensloop (confidential resume, resume in confidence), hervatten. (various references)

Esperanto

rekomenci. (various references)

Faeroese

taka afturí aftur. (various references)

Farsi 

چکیده کلام , حاصل (Growth, Harvest, Heir, Outcome, Outgrwth, Perquisite, Product, Result, Resultant, Upshot, Yield), خلاصه (Abstract, Compendium, Condensation, Digest, Epitome, Extract, Outline, Scantling, Schema, Short, Sketch, Sum, Summary, Summation, Synopsis, Upshot), ازسرگرفتن (Renovate), ادامه یافتن , دوباره بدست اوردن (Recoup, Recover, Regain, Retrieve), بازیافتن (Gain, Recover, Regain, Retrieve). (various references)

Finnish

ryhtyä uudelleen, jatkamissanoma, jatkaa (add a piece to, carry on, continue, extend, go on, join, keep on, lengthen, proceed, proceed with, scarf), alkaa uudestaan (begin afresh, make a new start). (various references)

French

recommencer (restart), curriculum vitae (confidential resume, record of attainments, resume in confidence). (various references)

German

fortsetzen (continue, follow up, keep up, proceed, to continue, to resume). (various references)

Greek 

ξαναρχίζω. (various references)

Hebrew 

לקחת מחדש, להמשיך (carry on, continue, draw, extend, go, go ahead, lengthen, prolong, push on), להתחיל שוב, תקציר (abstract, brief, gist, summary, synopsis), קורות חיים (curriculum vitae), קצור (abbreviation, abridgement, brevity, curtailment, reduction, shortening, summary, terseness). (various references)

Hungarian

visszanyer (get back, recover, recuperate, regain, retrieve, to reclaim, to recover, to recuperate, to regain, to win back), összefoglal (sum up, summarize, synthesize, to conclude, to epitomize, to subsume, to sum up, to summarize). (various references)

Indonesian

mulai lagi (afresh). (various references)

Italian

curriculum vitae (curriculum vitae). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

レジャー産業 (leisure industry, regionalism), レジオネラ症 (Legion d'honneur, Legionaire's disease, leisure, leisure land, leisure market, leisure wear, recreational area, register, register mark, residence, resistance, resistor), 履歴書　 (curriculum vitae, personal history), 履歴書 (curriculum vitae, personal history). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

レジュメ , レジメ , りれきしょ (curriculum vitae, personal history). (various references)

Korean 

요약 (Abbreviation, Abstract). (various references)

Manx

toshiaghey reesht, goaill toshiaght reesht (recommence). (various references)

Pig Latin

esumeray.(various references)

Portuguese

retomar (recapture, retake), resumo (abridgement, abstract, brief, compendium, condensation, digest, docket, epitome, excerpt, extract, playbill, precis, summary, summery, syllabus, synopsis), resumir (abstract, boil down, brief, compact, compress, condense, digest, epitomize, extract, precis, shorten, sum up, summarize, wind up), reocupar, recuperar (reclaim, recover, recuperate, redeem, regain, restore, retrieve), reconquistar (reconquer, recover), reatar (reopen), reassumir, sumário (abridgement, abstract, briefs, compendium, content, digest, docket, playbill, precis, recess, summary, summery, syllabus, synopsis), prosseguir (continue, proceed, proceed with, progress, prosecute, run, run on), pastilha (cake, lozenge, pastil, pastille, pellet, tablet, tabloid, wafer), comprimido (cachet, compressed, pill, squeezed, tablet, tabloid), compendiar (extract). (various references)

Romanian

rezumat (abridgement, abridgment, abstract, argument, brief, capsule, compendium, conclusion, digest, docket, epitome, recapitulation, sketch, summary, synopsis), rezuma (abbreviate, abstract, brief, capsule, digest, epitomize, precis, recapitulate, summarize), rezultat (child, conclusion, effect, end, event, fruit, issue, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, product, progeny, result, sum, upshot), relua (continue, reassume, recur to, renew, reopen, retake, revive), recapitulare (recap, recapitulation), recapitula (recap, recapitulate, sum), recãpãta (recover, recuperate, regain, repossess, retrieve), recâştiga (make up, recover, recuperate, regain, retrieve), reînnoi (piece up, redintegrate, renew, renovate, reopen, repeat), reîncepe (reassume, recommence, recrudesce, renew, reopen, restart), urma (attend, continue, ensue, follow, go with, hold, inherit, succeed, take), sumar (abstract, compendious, concise, docket, epitome, hasty, sketchy, summarily, summary), curriculum vitae, continua (bide, carry on, carry through, continue, follow, go on, hold, keep, keep it up, keep on, keep up, last, persist, play off, proceed, prosecute, pursue). (various references)

Russian 

резюме (abstract, apercu, apercus, epitome, recap, recapitulation, synopsis), краткие анкетные данные, возобновлять (proceed, reactivate, recommence, renew), продолжать резюме итоговый, итог (amount, result, sum, summaries, summation, total). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rezime (abstract, conspectus, summary, summing up), sažimati (abridge, compress, sum, sum up), produžiti (carry forward, elongate, extend, go on ahead, hold over, keep up, lengthen, proceed, prolong, prosecute, protract), povratiti (heave, reclaim, reproduce, restore, retrieve, vomit), ponovo zauzeti, nastaviti priču, kraći biografski podaci. (various references)

Spanish

reanudar (reboot, recommence, renew, restart, take up). (various references)

Swedish

återuppta. (various references)

Turkish

yeniden başlamak (make a fresh start), kavuşmak (come together, converge, meet, rejoin, retrieve, return to, reunite), kaldığı yerden devam etmek, geri almak (claw back, declare off, draw back, recall, recapture, retake, retract, retrieve, revoke, set back, swallow, take back, turn back, withdraw), özgeçmiş (autobiography, background, curriculum vitae, profile), özetlemek (abridge, abstract, boil down, brief, compress, encapsulate, epitomize, incapsulate, outline, precis, reduce, sum up, summarize, totalize, wrap up), özet (abridgement, abstract, brief, compendium, compress, condensation, conspectus, digest, epitome, extract, gist, outline, precis, roundup, short, sum, summary, summation, synopsis). (various references)

Ukrainian

резюмувати (abstract, brief, epitomize, perorate, recapitulate, sum up, summarize), резюме (abstract, boildown, breviate, brief, capsule, compendium, digest, epitome, recap, recapitulation, summary, synopsis), одержувати (acquire, attain, derive, gain, get, obtain, pull, receive), підсумок (amount, brief, output, pouch, result, tally, whole), продовжувати (carry, carry on, continue, elongate, go ahead, go along, go on, keep on, proceed, produce, prolong, prolongate, prosecute, protract, pursue). (various references)

recolo, resumentes, resumere, resumo, resumo (resumpsi; resumptum), resumpsit, resumpto. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "resume": resumed, resumer, resumers, resumes. (additional references)

Words ending with "resume": presume. (additional references)

Words containing "resume": presumed, presumedly, presumer, presumers, presumes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Resume" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: besume, bressummer, ecume, heaume, Hripsime, Iesum, Rasimi, Reasima, recomme, recune, refume, remuse, reque, reseme, resim, resobe, resoge, resome, ressuma, ressume, resu, resueme, resuge, resum, resumae, resumay, resumber, resum'e, resumea, resumee, resumey, Resumix, resump, resyme, Rexshun, risone, Risum, Rosami, Rovuma, rsum, rsume, ruesome, Russum, Ruvuma, Ryosuke. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: emeus, meres, mures, muser, reuse, serum.

-2 letters: emes, emeu, emus, mere, mure, muse, rees, rems, rues, rums, ruse, seem, seer, seme, sere, suer, sure, user.

-3 letters: eme, ems, emu, ere, ers, mus, ree, rem, res, rue, rum, see, ser, sue, sum, use.

-4 letters: em, er, es, me, mu, re, um, us.

+1 letter: embrues, lemures, measure, murexes, presume, relumes, resumed, resumer, resumes, supreme.

+2 letters: cerumens, demurest, embrutes, emeritus, eremurus, exhumers, gruesome, gumtrees, marquees, measured, measurer, measures, moresque, muenster, mustered, perfumes, permutes, presumed, presumer, presumes, reassume, requiems, resumers, submerge, submerse, summered, supermen, supremer.

+3 letters: admeasure, cerebrums, charmeuse, cumberers, demiurges, demurrers, electrums, embrasure, empurples, encumbers, furmeties, gruesomer, lumberers, maneuvers, measurers, mercuries, merengues, meringues, messieurs, metestrus, mezereums, moresques, muensters, muleteers, mummeries, murderees, murderers, murderess, murrelets, musketeer, mutineers, mutterers, numberers, numerates, perfumers, presumers, rearmouse, reassumed, reassumes, reimburse, relumines, remarques, remeasure, renumbers, reremouse, rheumiest, rousement, slumbered, slumberer, submerged, submerges, submersed, submerses, summerier, summiteer, supermale, supremely, supremest, udometers, umbrettes.