Other forms: resumes
A resume is the one-page paper that lists your education and jobs so far. Send your resume, update the resume, a strong resume.
It is the American word, where British English says CV, and the two differ in form as well as name — a resume is short and tailored to one job, and a CV can run to pages. It is usually written with accents. Note the verb resume, meaning to begin again, which is the same spelling and a different word.
1nounresumeA short document listing education and jobs.
“Send your resume and a short cover letter to the manager.”
resume is a document.
Also accepted in games: cv, curriculum vitae
French resume means a summary, the past participle of resumer, from Latin resumere, to take up again.
Latin
resumere
Middle French
resumer
English, today
resume
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From Anglo-Norman - resumer, Middle French resumer, from Latin resumere, from re- + sumere (“to take”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA