reversion
/rɪˈvɜrʒən/
noun
- A return to a previous state, condition, or practice.
- The company's reversion to old policies surprised many employees.
- After the diet, she experienced a reversion to her original eating habits.
- The reversion to manual record-keeping was necessary after the computer crash.
- In law, the return of property to the original owner or their heirs after a lease or grant ends.
- After the tenant moved out, the property underwent reversion to the landlord.
- The land's reversion to the family occurred when the lease expired.
- The lawyer explained the reversion clause in the contract.
- In biology, the reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism.
- The plant showed a reversion to its wild-type leaves.
- The breeder observed a reversion in the flower's color pattern.
- Genetic reversion can sometimes restore a lost trait.
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