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Resumption

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act or an instance of resuming; a beginning again: resumption of negotiations.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of resuming or starting something again.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of resuming

n. The taking again into the king's hands of such lands or tenements as he had granted to any man on false suggestions or other error.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of resuming, taking back, or taking again: as, the resumption of a grant; specifically, in law, the taking again by the state of such lands or tenements, etc., as on false suggestion or other error had been granted by letters patent.

n. Specifically In U. S. hist, and politics, the return to specie payments by the government.

n. In Welsh prosody, the practice of beginning every verse with the same letter, which is sustained throughout.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. beginning again

Word Usage

"First, the challenge isn't to permanent detention, but rather indefinite detention, so the real threat of its resumption is enough to make it real."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

commencement beginning start

Cross Reference

renewal summarization act of resumption resumption act

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

assumption consumption gumption presumption

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

renewal cessation stoppage reversal continuation