recovery
/ɹɪˈkʌvəɹi/
A return to normal health; The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost; Renewed growth after a slump; The ability to recover or regain health
- plural
- recoveries
Meanings
- 1
A return to normal health
The patient made a full recovery.
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Is there any chance of his recovery?
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- 2
The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost
- 3
Renewed growth after a slump
- 4
The ability to recover or regain health
- 5
The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.; A clever verbal solution to an embarrassing verbal mistakerare
- 6
A return to former status or position.; The act of regaining the natural position after curtseyingrare
- 7
A return to former status or position.; The act of regaining the position of guard after making an attack, in fencing, sparring, etcrare
- 8
The recovery of debtrare
- 9
A verdict giving somebody the right to recover debts or costsrare
- 10
The extraction of an ore from a mine, or of a metal from an orerare