reversion
/rɪˈvɜːʃən/noun
1
- 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。
1.1
- Biology the action of reverting to a former or ancestral type【生】回复突变; 返祖遗传。
2
- 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。
2.1
- count noun a property to which someone has such a right得复归地产。
2.2
- 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。
3
- a sum payable on a person's death, especially by way of life insurance恤金（尤指寿险赔偿）。
4
- （亦作reversion disease）[mass noun] an incurable disease of the blackcurrant transmitted by the blackcurrant gall mite黑醋栗退化病。
派生词
reversionary
adjective （限义项2和3）词源
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）.