I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
restore/resume relations (= begin them again after they were stopped or interrupted )
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Kenya and Uganda agreed to restore full diplomatic relations.
resume negotiations (= start them again )
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The pressure is on Israel and the Palestinians to resume peace negotiations.
resume your duties (= start doing your job again )
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She hopes to be well enough to resume her duties next week.
resume your seat formal (= sit down again )
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We resumed our seats for the second half of the play.
talks resume/are resumed
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Talks resumed in Geneva on April 19 after a month’s break.
talks resume/are resumed
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Talks resumed in Geneva on April 19 after a month’s break.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
activity
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Nature resumes its activities , the patterns of behaviour you disrupted by your arrival.
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Four of five people with clinical depression can improve and resume daily activity , usually within weeks.
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The plates realigned and subduction resumed , sparking volcanic activity which spewed forth the granite rock covering much of the Sierras.
career
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Friends believe he may take the post rather than wait for a by-election to resume his career .
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Supreme Court overthrew his conviction, and he resumed his boxing career and transcended sports.
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It's understandable that she would want to resume her acting career after having children.
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Alexander has told friends she intends to follow through on a desire to resume her acting career .
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The star, who won an Oscar for Paper Moon at the age of nine, was desperate to resume her career .
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Voice over Northampton's Derek Redmond, is to resume his athletics career .
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In the 1920s Pearson resumed his acting career but also began publishing short stories, essays, and journalism.
climb
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Pull hard, and it will resume its climb .
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Then investors regained their balance, and the market resumed its upward climb .
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The funicular had resumed its climb , apparently smoothly enough.
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P and Nasdaq resumed their climbs after the July 19 drop -- but money flow into both kept declining.
conversation
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We resumed conversation almost as if we had never left off.
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After a decent interval, the three of them resumed their conversation , much to my relief.
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They resumed their conversation , chatting away late into the evening.
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As the weather changes, the boat begins to roll a little, and the tables in the bar resume their metallic conversation .
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Then I resumed my conversation with the Mahommedans.
duty
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He will resume duties next week following the apology.
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The state has replaced it and the family will not resume these duties even if the state were to withdraw.
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Mitterrand, 75, who left a Paris hospital yesterday, will resume his duties soon.
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Coetsee was expected to resume his duties after he had recuperated.
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Then after a hearty sneeze, Fagg appeared ready to resume his duties as interviewee.
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He is expected to resume duties next week.
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I spoke to Michael some time ago, he's getting better, and I look forward to him resuming his duties .
flight
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There was a gentle, left-right shuffle, then it resumed yaw-free flight .
job
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Now able to resume his job as a postman, he owes his life to the paramedics.
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Herman brought the same kind of resume to the job that her predecessors did.
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Their onerous errand completed, the men resumed their jobs .
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Employers could post job openings and browse through the resumes of job seekers.
journey
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As they prepared to leave and resume their homeward journey , Jack decided to take a last look around the parcels office.
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He listened completely, and when he resumed his journey , found that one hundred years had passed by.
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The passengers and crew had transferred to the Stratocruiser and resumed their journey more than 3 hours behind schedule.
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So we left and resumed our journey .
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It was snowing on the day we resumed our northward journey .
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The gentleman returned to his compartment and resumed his journey , puzzled by his strange experience.
life
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But then they had to come back and resume their lives .
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Some patients did emerge from iron lungs and resume their normal lives , fully recovered.
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Then, in May 1823, the hoped-for pardon arrived and he was able to resume a normal life at Kinloch.
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Within a few months she was able to resume her normal life with new coping skills and a greater sense of self-affirmation.
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It might be nice, mightn't it, to get back home and resume her quiet ordinary life ?
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Power and phone service were being restored; daily life was resuming .
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I feel that you need a complete rest before you can resume normal life .
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He has vowed to solve the crime almost as often as he has vowed to resume the life he used to live.
negotiation
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The delegations again failed to agree on when or where the negotiations should resume .
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Settlement negotiations may resume Monday, sources say.
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A round of hostilities could develop that would diminish the chances of the negotiations resuming .
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Clinton said yesterday negotiations would resume no later than next Wednesday.
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But the Hebron negotiations resumed within 24 hours.
position
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The wings then resume their normal position when the adult emerges.
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Her body resumes its fetal position and Jakhaila relaxes into sleep.
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Her resume lists pilot positions with Los Angeles-based Alpha Airlines.
role
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His leadership role was taken from him and he resumed his role as physician.
service
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Otherwise, however, the pressure to resume normal service was wide and intense.
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No commercial airlines have yet resumed service .
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Finally, permission was given for the ferry to resume its scheduled services from 9am today.
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Because of a coal crisis, passenger services ceased over the whole line as from 15 January 1951 and were never resumed .
study
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He resumed his studies at the Royal College but was unable to concentrate.
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She decided to return east and resume her studies at Columbiato pick up her life where she had left off.
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She shrugged and resumed her morose study of the green glass which stood in front of her.
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The company had wanted him to transfer to London, in order to resume the computer studies he had been taking at school.
work
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Once it is forgotten again, she resumes her work in the spartan room allocated to her by a local co-op.
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B.. Present a formal written resume of your work and employment experience, appropriate for future job searches.
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He resumed work at Beaumaris in 1306 but died before May 1309.
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Sedgwick and McGean carried with them copies of their resumes , rental and work histories, credit reports and life stories.
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Mahathir resumed work on April 3.
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Blaming a personality clash within the department for her ultimatum, she said she would resume work when her back was better.
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Dixon returned to Durham, resuming his work as a surveyor.
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But when he had recovered sufficiently he wanted to resume work as possible on his play.
■ VERB
schedule
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The peace talks were scheduled to resume in Caracas on July 15.
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It is scheduled to resume production on Tuesday.
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The Senate is scheduled to resume consideration of the bill Wednesday.
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S., President Bill Clinton and Republican congressional leaders are scheduled to resume their budget talks later today.
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The talks are scheduled to resume on Tuesday in Chicago.
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Republican leaders are scheduled to resume budget talks with the Clinton administration Wednesday.
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Debate on the measure was interrupted by the tax cut bill but is scheduled to resume after the recess.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"As I was saying," resumed Dahlberg.
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Collins was so seriously injured that he was unable to resume his career.
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He said no more, and resumed reading his newspaper.
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Sherman resumed his walk toward First Avenue.
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The jurors are anxious to resume their normal lives again.
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The trial will resume on Wednesday morning.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fifteen minutes go by, and the noise resumes, gently, slowly, and in my direction.
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Normal service has since been resumed.
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Otherwise, however, the pressure to resume normal service was wide and intense.
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Pumping operations would resume this morning.
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Stories, however, have circulated that the Bush administration may be more open than was President Clinton to resuming diplomatic relations.
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The course of power and enterprise has resumed.
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Which is handy for large files as it's faster and can resume broken downloads.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He gave a resume of the year's work and wished the Society another successful year.
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Instead, it attempts to give a brief resume of the current legal position.