reassuming

Resuming a role

Reassuming is taking something up again after a pause or interruption—returning to a role, position, or state previously held: After her sabbatical, she began reassuming her duties as department chair.

The word implies restoration rather than fresh assumption: you reassume what was once yours.

resumption

resuming

Beginning again after pause

returning · reentering · reinstating · recapturing · repossessing · reacquiring · readopting · reintegrating · reactivating · recommencing

role

responsibility

State of being answerable

title · leadership · command · authority · control · mantle · charge · post · function · capacity

Opposites
taking up again vs. giving up

reassumingabandoning

Leaving permanently behind

relinquishing · giving up · renouncing · abdicating · surrendering

resumption vs. initial relinquishment

reassuminghanding over

Transferring control or possession

transferring · resigning · ceding · quitting · yielding

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