reclaim
IPA: rikɫˈeɪm
noun
- (obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
- (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
- An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.
- baggage reclaim
verb
- (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
- (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
- (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
- (transitive, dated) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
- (transitive, archaic) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
- (transitive, archaic) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
- (transitive, archaic) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
- (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.
- (intransitive, law, Scotland) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
- (sociology) To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.
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Examples of "reclaim" in Sentences
- The man reclaimed the managerial job.
- The country should reclaim the canal immediatly.
- The use of the term reclaim is also significant.
- A group of mutinous irregulars reclaimed the name.
- Bruce was forced to reclaim the mantle of the Bat.
- He reclaims the statue figurine and puts it back in.
- Valdemar sought to repay the debt and reclaim the lands of Denmark.
- He reclaims the statue figurine and puts it back in the red cistern.
- The public mood in the UK was in support of an attempt to reclaim the islands.
- The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy worked with the state to reclaim the land.
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