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To begin or take again.

Watch out! You may see this word with another pronunciation and its meaning is then different.
Used as a verb, listen here, it means: To begin or take again. Used as a noun, listen here, it means: A brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

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  • resume a title
  • For someone who has been in the business for 20 years, his resume is actually quite small.
  • Because your resume is a business document and has a focus on results, the softer skills may not be apparent.
  • To say that you are indifferent to resume is to say that you would be fine with 9 people with identical resumes.
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  • ''resume" is a heteronym, which means you may find it with different pronunciations and different meanings.
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