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US
/ɹɪˈvɝʒən/
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[ UK /ɹɪvˈɜːʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪvˈɜːʃən/ ]
NOUN
- (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
- a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
- returning to a former state
- (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
- turning in the opposite direction
- a failure to maintain a higher state
How To Use reversion In A Sentence
- Another friend notes a shift in the type of gifts given at wedding showers, a reversion to 1950s-style offerings: soup ladles and frilly aprons are being unwrapped along with see-through nighties and push-up bras.
- The change in occupational structure shows the image of a reversion to trend after the short-term break caused by the economic crisis.
- The most powerful impulse of the time can be summed up as neoclassicism, a reversion to the purist attempts of the Renaissance to reproduce classical models.
- The bureau still enacts the legally specified reversion level, which is still greater than the median voter's most preferred choice.
- The British are still reticent about their deepest fears - class war, a reversion to economic feudalism, the spectre of an all-dominant and all-vapid consumer society.
- reversionary annuity
- The country has no reason to believe that 2005 will see any reversion to the unchecked lawlessness that, at J'Ouvert in Port-of-Spain, for example, has scared away some would-be participants.
- I'm trying to prevent the reversion of my garden to nature.
- When the house is eventually vacated and sold, the proceeds are divided between the reversion company and the homeowner, or the beneficiaries of the estate if the homeowner has died.
- Paré gives a case of reversion, and of crooked hands and feet; and Barlow 11.54 speaks of a child of two and three-quarter years with kyphosis, but mobility of the lumbar region, which walked on its elbows and knees. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine