Usually means: Return to previous state, condition.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word reversion:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. reversion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. reversion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reversion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reversion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. reversion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Reversion, reversion: Wordnik
  7. reversion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. reversion: Wiktionary
  9. reversion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. reversion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. reversion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. reversion: Dictionary.com
  13. reversion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Reversion (law), Reversion (software development), Reversion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Reversion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. reversion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. reversion: Rhymezone
  18. Reversion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. reversion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. reversion: Free Dictionary
  21. reversion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. reversion: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. reversion: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. reversion: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Reversion (genetics), reversion: Legal dictionary
  8. reversion: Financial dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  10. Reversion: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reversion (genetics), reversion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Reversion (genetics), reversion: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. re.version, reversion: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. reversion: Canadian Soil Information System

(Note: See reversioning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The action of reverting something.
noun:  The action of returning to a former condition or practice.
noun:  The fact of being turned the reverse way.
noun:  The action of turning something the reverse way.
noun:  (property law) The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
noun:  (property law) An estate which has been returned in this manner.
noun:  (property law) The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
noun:  The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
noun:  (genetics) The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.
noun:  A sum payable on a person's death.
noun:  (Islam, usually proscribed) The act of conversion to Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim.

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