recovery
The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.
Other meanings
A return to normal health.
“I hope you make a full recovery.”
A return to former status or position.
Related words
- antirecovery
- biorecovery
- cryorecovery
- neurorecovery
- nonrecovery
- osmorecovery
- overrecovery
- photorecovery
- precovery
- prorecovery
- rerecovery
- recovery phrase
Example sentences
Word history
From Old French "recovree".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “recovery” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.