Definition

Noun 1. The act or process of reclaiming something; the state of being reclaimed. This involves recovering useful materials, restoring land, or correcting a person's behavior or course. 2. The recovery of useful substances from waste products. An industrial or environmental process of extracting valuable materials from discarded items. 3. The conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use for habitation or cultivation. The process of making damaged or unused land productive again. 4. Rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course. The act of reforming or improving someone's behavior or situation.

Usage Examples

• General Process:
• From Waste:
• Of Land:
• Of a Person:

Advanced Usage

• "Land reclamation": A specific term for creating new land from oceans, seas, riverbeds, or lake beds.
  • Much of the Netherlands' farmland is the result of centuries of land reclamation from the sea.
• "Reclamation project": A planned endeavor to restore land or recover materials.
  • The old landfill is now a major reclamation project aimed at creating a public park.

Variants and Related Words

• Reclaim (verb): To retrieve, recover, or restore.
  • They aim to reclaim the polluted river for swimming.
• Reclaimed (adjective): Describing something that has been recovered or restored.
  • The floor was made from reclaimed wood.

Synonyms

• Recovery (especially for materials)
• Restoration (especially for land or ecosystems)
• Rehabilitation (especially for land or people)
• Salvage (for materials from waste or destruction)

Related Phrases

• Reclamation center/facility: A place where reclamation activities, such as waste processing, occur.
  • The old appliances were sent to a specialized reclamation facility.

Noun

1. the recovery of useful substances from waste products
2. rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course
   • the reclamation of delinquent children
3. the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation