reversions

Noun

reversion (countable and uncountable, plural reversions)

1. The act or process of reverting something.
   • Near-synonym: reversal

   Synonyms:

   reversal

   1. The act or process of reverting a database to a prior state.
      • Near-synonym: rollback (sometimes synonymous)
2. The action of returning to a former condition or practice.
   • 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.1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 18

   Synonyms:

   deconversion, restitution, regression

3. The fact of being turned the reverse way.
4. The action of turning something the reverse way.
5. 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—1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, III.ii

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