Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Capable of being used again: Describes something that can be recovered, restored, or returned to a useful state after being discarded, lost, or degraded.
   • Capable of being reformed or rehabilitated: In a social or personal context, describes a person or quality that can be improved or corrected.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The company has a process for sorting reclaimable materials from the waste stream.
  • Much of the plastic in these products is not easily reclaimable.
  • The counselor believed the young offender was still reclaimable and could turn his life around.

Advanced Usage

• In environmental and industrial contexts: Often used to describe materials (like metals, plastics, water) that can be processed for reuse.
  • The new technology aims to make previously non-reclaimable electronic components valuable resources.
• In land management: Refers to land, such as wetlands or mined areas, that can be restored to a productive or natural state.
  • The project's goal is to transform the barren site into reclaimable farmland.

Variants and Related Words

• Reclaim (verb): To retrieve or recover something previously lost, given, or paid; to bring (waste land or land under water) under cultivation.
  • The city plans to reclaim the old industrial waterfront for parks.
• Reclamation (noun): The process of claiming something back or of restoring something to a better state.
  • Land reclamation from the sea is a major engineering project.

Synonyms

• Recoverable: Able to be regained or retrieved.
• Recyclable: Able to be processed and used again.
• Salvageable: Able to be saved from loss or destruction for reuse.

Antonyms

• Irreclaimable: Not able to be reclaimed, recovered, or reformed.
• Lost: Unable to be found or recovered.
• Waste: (As an adjective describing material) discarded as no longer useful.

Adjective

1. capable of being used again