resumption

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʌmpʃən

Noun

resumption (countable and uncountable, plural resumptions)

1. The act of resuming or starting something again.
   • 2011 December 7, Phil McNulty, “Man City 2 - 0 Bayern Munich”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     And that supremacy was confirmed six minutes after the resumption with their second goal. Dzeko was again involved, slipping a neat pass through to the foraging Toure, who poked a right-foot finish past Butt.

   • 2022 August 24, Steve Murphy tells Paul Stephen, “Rail + property: a winning combination”, in RAIL, number 964, page 48:

     But Murphy remains upbeat about the longer-term prospect of recovery and a resumption of the record growth in passenger volumes experienced in the UK in the two decades following privatisation.

2. (chiefly Australia) eminent domain

Synonyms

• (act of resuming): restart

Translations

act of resuming something again

• Bulgarian: възобновяване (bg) (vǎzobnovjavane), продължаване (bg) n (prodǎlžavane)
• Catalan: represa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 繼續 / 继续 (zh) (jìxù)

• Finnish: jatko (fi), jatkaminen (fi), jatkuminen (fi)
• German: Wiederaufnahme (de) f
• Macedonian: о́бнова f (óbnova), обнову́вање n (obnovúvanje), возобнову́вање n (vozobnovúvanje), продолжу́вање n (prodolžúvanje)
• Manx: aahoshiaghey m
• Polish: reasumpcja (pl) f
• Russian: возобновле́ние (ru) n (vozobnovlénije)
• Turkish: kaldığı yerden devam etme, yeniden başlama (tr)

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