reclamation

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CORDS OF VANITY, performs an act of reclamation which is at the same time an act of fresh creation.

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  1. noun The act or process of reclaiming.
  2. noun A restoration, as to productivity, usefulness, or morality.

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  • First an inspection was made of the agricultural areas and the work of reclamation, the building of the dam, the laboratories and plant-breeding establishments in Raisko, the stockbreeding centers and the tree nurseries. —  Commandant of Auschwitz
  • This stretch of gravelly beach and ocean has since at least 2001 been earmarked by the V&A as "proposed reclamation area". —  Mail & Guardian Online
  • The reclamation plan and map shall specify progress and completion dates of the reclamation plan; provided, however, the reclamation is to be completed prior to the expiration of three (3) years after the termination of the mining operation on the land. —  The Times Today's News
  • The guys building this road used picks shovels and wheelbarrows, and the fill for the reclamation was good old fashioned rock.
  • This in addition to land reclamation, agriculture and agricultural industry projects.
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  1. Middle English reclamacion, from Old French reclamation, from Latin reclāmātiō, reclāmātiōn-, cry of opposition, from reclāmātus, past participle of reclāmāre, to exclaim against; see reclaim.

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  1. from Old French reclamation, French réclamation =Spanish reclamacion =Portuguese reclamação =Italian richiamazione, a contradiction, gainsaying, from Latin reclamatio (n-), a cry of opposition or disapprobation, from reclamare, cry out against: see reclaim.
 

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/rɛkləˈmeɪʃən/
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