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reclamation

[ rek-luh-mey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the reclaiming of desert, marshy, or submerged areas or other wasteland for cultivation or other use.
  2. the act or process of reclaiming.
  3. the state of being reclaimed.
  4. the process or industry of deriving usable materials from waste, by-products, etc.


reclamation

/ ˌrɛkləˈmeɪʃən /

noun

  1. the conversion of desert, marsh, or other waste land into land suitable for cultivation
  2. the recovery of useful substances from waste products
  3. the act of reclaiming or state of being reclaimed


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Other Words From

  • nonrec·la·mation noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of reclamation1

1525–35, in sense “a protest”; < Middle French < Latin reclāmātiōn- (stem of reclāmātiō ) crying out against, equivalent to reclāmāt ( us ) (past participle of reclāmāre; reclaim ) + -iōn- -ion

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Example Sentences

For them, this is not demolition but reclamation, cleansing the sanctuary that has been profaned by liberals.

Matangi, a reclamation of the brown girl narrative, is a middle finger to you.

He forgot that even the Zionist reclamation project only goes so far.

These acts of self-reclamation, even if achieved with assistance from men, turn these women into something entirely new instead.

I “embrace” my “otherness,” to spew that overused phrase of early '90s identity reclamation.

The new Secretary had found his office flooded with complaints about the Reclamation Service.

This bog contains several thousand acres, and seems quite susceptible of reclamation and improvement.

In the first place, reclamation may mean two distinct things.

To reduce a hawk while in process of reclamation is no more than you will be obliged to do.

But manning is only the first step in the reclamation of a hawk.

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