reclaimable
/ri'kleiməbl/
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Definition
- 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
- capable of being used again