Near-synonym: reversal
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Reversion
//ɹɪˈvɜːʒ(ə)n̩//
Synonyms for "reversion" (153 found)
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line of successionmode of successionparamount estateparticular estatepatrimonypostremogenitureprimogeniturepronationreactivationrecidivismreclamationreconstitutionreconversionrecrudescencerecurrenceredintegrationreenactmentreestablishmentreformationrehabilitation
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reinstatementreinstationreinstitutionreinvestiturereinvestmentrelapseremainderrenewalreplacementrestitutionrestorationresupinationretroflexionretroversionreturnreversereversingrevulsionright-aboutright-about-facesetbackshifting trustshifting usesuccessionsupinationswingaroundthrowbacktopsy-turvinesstopsy-turvydomtransposaltranspositionturnturnaboutturnaroundturningturning backturning backwardsturning inside outturning inwardturning overultimogeniturevested estatevolte facevolte-face
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Translations
6 translations across 4 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- връщане към noun (return)
Dutch
3 entries- erfrecht noun (the return of an estate)
- terugkeer noun (return)
- terugkeer noun (the return of an estate)
French
1 entries- retour noun (return)
Latin
1 entries- reversiō noun (return)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
With its lavish brass and copperwork, this [bright chocolate] seemed a trifle too gay and unbecoming for a G.W.R. locomotive, and apparently the Company soon shared this view for there was a reversion to the standard Brunswick green.
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Well Russia at the present time is at a crossroads. It is often said that the Cold War is over and that the West has won it. That's only half true. Because what has happened is that the communists have been defeated, but the ideas of freedom now are on trial. If they don't work, there will be a reversion to, not communism which has failed, but what I call a new despotism which would pose a mortal danger to the rest of the world because it would be infected with the virus of Russian imperialism which of course has been a characteristic of Russian foreign policy for centuries.
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Why nothing capital of my master's wardrobe has drop'd lately—but I could give you a mortgage on some of his winter Cloaths with equity of redemption before November or—you shall have the reversion—of the French velvet, or a post obit on the Blue and Silver—
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