reversion

reversion
[rɪˈvə:ʃ(ə)n]
noun

[mass noun]a return to a previous state, practice, or belief
（状态、做法或信仰的）回复，恢复
there was some reversion to polytheism.
多神论有所回潮。
[in sing.]a reversion to the two-party system.
两党制的恢复。
■(Biology)the action of reverting to a former or ancestral type
(生)回复突变；返祖遗传
[mass noun](Law)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
(律)复归权
the reversion of property.
地产归复。
■[count noun]a property to which someone has such a right
得复归地产
■the right of succession to an office or post after the death or retirement of the holder
（官职的）接任权，继承权
he was given a promise of the reversion of Boraston's job.
他被许诺接任博拉斯顿的工作。
a sum payable on a person's death, especially by way of life insurance
恤金（尤指经寿险）
(亦作 reversion disease)[mass noun]an incurable disease of the blackcurrant transmitted by the blackcurrant gall mite
里醋栗退化病

派生
reversionary
adjective

语源

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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