recuperation

recuperate | American Dictionary

recuperate
verb[ I ]
us/rɪˈku·pəˌreɪt/
to become stronger and better again after an illness or injury:
After leaving the hospital, he continued to recuperate at home.

recuperation

noun[ U ]us/rɪˌku·pəˈreɪ·ʃən/
a lengthy recuperation

recuperate | Business English

recuperate
verb[ T ]
 FINANCEuk /rɪˈkuːpəreɪt/us
to get back money that you have spent or invested:
I don't think we will be able to recuperate all our outlay.

Examples of recuperate

recuperate
When the obstacle disappears, the path recuperates its initial form.
How and why was it recuperated in successive generations?
In such pot experiments, regular rewatering may allow the plants to recuperate from water stress.
We have seen the ghostly ways difference is recuperated within international law to reinscribe colonial-type relations of power.
The recuperating hopes of the final page of his essay are dependent on a paternal figure.
Family members are encouraged to "back off" to help the patient recuperate from the current episode.
It should be ahead, but it quickly dissipates as avant-garde, as it is accepted, recuperated, understood.
It recuperated women from the public world of crime and restored them to a privatized and asocial domestic space.
Persistent forces of considerable magnitude, which constantly interfere with the self-organization process, do not let the system in question recuperate completely.
However, is it impossible to recuperate the past.
It represents a moment of ideological indeterminacy that must be recuperated but cannot.
It thus attempts to recuperate in meter and symbol the imagined cultural and legislative freedom of the past.
The ensuing price rises allowed public enterprises to ' recuperate ' more than 20,000 million dinars of profits from the black market.
Rather, he believes that the dramatic sense of music as an art form should be recuperated.
Moreover, there is no way to recuperate ethnicity or other social factors.
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