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   reversion

   /rɪˈvəːʃn/

   noun

   • 1. a return to a previous state, practice, or belief: "there was some reversion to polytheism"
   • ▪ the action of reverting to a former or ancestral type: "a problem applicable to most variegated plants is that of reversion"
   • 2. the right, especially of the original owner or their heirs, to possess or succeed to property on the death of the present possessor or at the end of a lease: "the reversion of property"
   • ▪ a property to which someone has the right of reversion: "parties buying and selling leases and reversions"
   • ▪ the right of succession to an office or post after the death or retirement of the holder: "he was given a promise of the reversion of Boraston's job"
   • 3. a sum payable on a person's death, especially by way of life insurance.
   • 4. an incurable disease of the blackcurrant transmitted by the blackcurrant gall mite.

   Word Origin late Middle English (denoting the action of returning to or from a place): from Old French, or from Latin reversio(n-), from revertere ‘turn back’ (see reverse).

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   REVERSION definition: 1. a change back to a previous and often worse condition: 2. a return of something to its previous…. Learn more.

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   Reversion is a noun that means a change back to a previous and often worse condition, or a return of something to its previous owner. Learn how to use it in different contexts, see examples and translations in various languages.

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   Reversion definition: the act of turning something the reverse way.. See examples of REVERSION used in a sentence.

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   A reversion to a previous state, system, or kind of behaviour is a change back to it. Most of us learnt to fish as children, and so going fishing is a reversion to a state of uncomplicatedness. [ + to] ...a reversion to the emotions of her baby years. 2. variable noun.

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