Reclamation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or process of reclaiming.
  • n. A restoration, as to productivity, usefulness, or morality.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of reclaiming or the state of being reclaimed.
  • n. The recovery of a wasteland, or of flooded land so it can be cultivated.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act or process of reclaiming.
  • n. Representation made in opposition; remonstrance.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A reclaiming of something as a possession; a claim or demand for return or restoration; a requirement of compensation for something wrongly taken or withheld; also, a claim to a discovery as having been previously made.
  • n. A calling or bringing back, as from aberration or wrong-doing; restoration; reformation.
  • n. The act of subduing to fitness for service or use; taming; amelioration: as, the reclamation of wild animals or waste land.
  • n. A remonstrance; representation made in opposition; a cry of opposition or disapprobation.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course
  • n. the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation
  • n. the recovery of useful substances from waste products
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rescue    saving    delivery    deliverance    retrieval   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    remonstrance   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    drainage    debridement    irrigation    amelioration    vagabondism   
     
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