English Dictionary

reversion

/ɹɪˈvɜːʒ(ə)n̩/

noun

The action of reverting something. / The action of returning to a former condition or practice. / The fact of being turned the reverse way. / The action of turning something the reverse way.

The reversion of the decision was unexpected.

意味（1）

The action of reverting something.

意味（2）

The action of returning to a former condition or practice.

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.

意味（3）

The fact of being turned the reverse way.

意味（4）

The action of turning something the reverse way.

意味（5）

(property law) The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.

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

意味（6）

(property law) An estate which has been returned in this manner.

意味（7）

(property law) The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.

意味（8）

The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.

意味（9）

(genetics) The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.

意味（10）

A sum payable on a person's death.

意味（11）

(Islam, usually proscribed) The act of conversion to Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim.