resumes

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of resume.

   Recruiters skim through hundreds of resumes for each open position.

   Two equally strong resumes made the final decision difficult.

   Note

   A plural that shares its spelling with a verb: resumes can be documents on a recruiter's desk or the verb for starting again. Most often it counts summaries of education and work prepared for job applications. That is the usage of the US, Canada, Australia and the Philippines, and the same document is also called a curriculum vitae. The older sense of any summary or synopsis forms its plural the same way.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of resume.

   The factory resumes full production as soon as the parts arrive.

   After a brief recess, the trial resumes tomorrow afternoon.

   Note

   Here the subject does the starting again, and it can do so with or without an object: the factory resumes production, or play simply resumes after a delay. Two other transitive uses, taking back possession and summarizing, are now archaic. In current English the form therefore means continuing after a pause, and it is easily told from the plural noun by the subject that comes before it.

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