recovery
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- recovre (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from Anglo-Norman recoverie, from Old French recovree, from recovrer (“recover”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
recovery (plural recoveries)
- The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.
- A return to normal health.
- A return to former status or position.
- The act of regaining the natural position after curtseying.
- The act of regaining the position of guard after making an attack, in fencing, sparring, etc.
- (economics) Renewed growth after a slump.
- (mining) The extraction of an ore from a mine, or of a metal from an ore
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Translations[edit]
act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost
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return to normal health
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return to former status
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economics: renewed growth after a slump
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