reclaim
Short definition from Wiktionary
Verb
- To return land to a suitable condition for use.
- To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
- To claim something back; to repossess.
- To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
- To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
- To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
- To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
- To draw back; to give way.
- To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
- To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.
Noun
- The calling back of a hawk.
- The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
- An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.
- Clipping of baggage reclaim.
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