All 11 Uses

resume
in
The Namesake
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Written at the top of a résumé?
Chpt 5

résumé = a written, brief summary of a person's qualifications to do something
Inside she finds a cover letter and a résumé.
Chpt 10
For a minute she simply stares at the name centered at the top of the résumé, laser-printed in an elegant font.
Chpt 10
She reads through the résumé, learns exactly where he's been and what he's done for the past decade.
Chpt 10 *
She reads Dimitri's résumé again, then the cover letter.
Chpt 10
In the Xerox room, she makes a copy of the résumé.
Chpt 10
She tells herself the coincidence of finding his résumé, of stumbling upon him in this way, is too great, that anyone in her position would pick up the phone and call.
Chpt 10
Still, she doesn't tell Nikhil about the résumé.
Chpt 10
The first time they met, the day after she called him, at the bar of a crowded Italian restaurant near NYU, they had not been able to stop staring at each other, not been able to stop talking about the résumé, and the uncanny way it had fallen into Moushumi's hands.
Chpt 10
Lying in his parents' house, in the middle of the night, she told him the whole story, about meeting Dimitri on a bus, finding his résumé in the bin.
Chpt 12
She's grown it to her shoulders now, and allowed it to resume what appears to be its natural shade, light brown with bits of blond here and there.†
Chpt 5 *

Definitions:

(1) (resume as in: resume the meeting)
begin or take again

This sense of resume generally means to begin again or continue after a pause. In usage like, "resumed her seat", it scan also mean to take again.
(2) (résumé as in: submitted her résumé)
a brief summary of a person's qualifications to do something -- typically submitted with an employment application

In practice, résumé is often written without the accented e's.
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, résumé can refer to any summary.