reclamation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation
noun rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course
noun the recovery of useful substances from waste products

Borrowed from Middle French réclamation, from Latin reclamatio. Equivalent to reclaim + -ation.

Never say again that he is beyond reclamation, while we can try!" — The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times, George Alfred Townsend
So Uncle Sam's engineers are driving their reclamation schemes with railroad speed. — Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania, Jewett C. (Jewett Castello) Gilson
The Spirit must have heard him thinking, for it said immediately: "Your reclamation, then. — A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, Charles Dickens

renewal, rehabilitation

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