recuperation

See also: récupération

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recuperātiō. By surface analysis, recuperate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

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Noun

recuperation (usually uncountable, plural recuperations)

1. Gradual restoration to health.

   Synonyms: convalescence, healing, recovery

2. Instance of getting something back.
3. (politics, sociology) Process by which radical or subversive ideas are co-opted by mainstream society.

   Antonym: detournement

   Coordinate term: cooptation

   • 2009 May, Hans Ulrich Obrist, “In Conversation with Raoul Vaneigem”, in e-flux‎^[1], archived from the original on 7 September 2009:

     [Raoul Vaneigem] I have nothing in common with the spectacular recuperation of a project that, in my case, has remained revolutionary throughout.

Derived terms

• nonrecuperation

Related terms

• recuperate

Translations

convalescence

• Bulgarian: оздравяване (bg) n (ozdravjavane)
• Finnish: toipuminen (fi)
• German: Erholung (de) f
• Irish: biseach m
• Māori: mātūtūtanga
• Polish: rekonwalescencja (pl) f
• Polish: rekonwalescencja (pl) f
• Turkish: iyileşme (tr)

Instance of getting something back

• Bulgarian: възвръщане n (vǎzvrǎštane)
• Finnish: takaisin saaminen
• German: Wiedergewinnung f
• Polish: rekuperacja f
• Turkish: reküperasyon, yeniden kazanma

(sociology) Process by which radical or subversive ideas are co-opted by mainstream society

See also

• recovery and reconstitution

Further reading

• healing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• recuperation (politics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin reciperātiō.

Noun

recuperation f (plural recuperations)

1. recuperation (instance of getting something back)

Descendants

• French: récupération