Dictionary Entry
reversion
reversion is a 9-letter English word with 12 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of returning, or coming back; return. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of returning, or coming back; return.
- 2noun
That which reverts or returns; residue.
- 3noun
The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after the termination of a limited or less estate carved out of it and conveyed by him.
- 4noun
Hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment; succession.
- 5noun
A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person.
- 6noun
A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism.
- 7noun
a failure to maintain a higher state
- 8noun
returning to a former state
- 9noun
turning in the opposite direction
- 10noun
a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
- 11noun
(genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
- 12noun
(law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
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