résumé

Definition

Alternative spelling of resume (“a summary, especially of employment history”).

Etymology

Borrowed from French résumé, past participle of résumer (“to summarize”), from Latin resūmere (“to take back”); compare resume.

Example Sentences

• "On one occasion Mrs. Val Gwepton, who was not blessed with the most reposeful of temperaments, fairly let herself go, and gave Mrs. Pentherby a vivid and truthful résumé of her opinion of her."
• "1978, Royal Society of South Australia, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volumes 102-103, page 79, A résumé of diagnostic characters of the five families represented in Australia is also given, and a list of the 19 genera described from Australia is included"
• "1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine The match between Stiegler and Xanadu was doubly unlikely; not only was Stiegler happily unemployed, but the Xanadu programmers did not seem to place high value on management personnel. As Stiegler tells it, the original plan during the first days at Autodesk was to get somebody with a good résumé and stick him in a closet until somebody from Autodesk came to visit, at which point the obedient manager could be trotted out to prove that the hackers were under control. This was hardly Stiegler's style."