rehabilitation
Pluralrehabilitations
- 1The process of restoring someone or something to health, proper working condition, or a former positive status.
Her rehabilitation after the stroke involved daily speech and physical therapy sessions.
The city approved funding for the rehabilitation of several historic buildings downtown.
Similarrestoration, recovery, renovation
Note
A word that works in several trades at once. In prisons it names the effort to return offenders to society; in psychology and medicine, the recovery of function after illness or injury; in preservation, the repair of buildings for renewed use. Brian Haresnape applies it to railway stations in 1962, and a football club's rehabilitation is the recovery of its standing. It is uncountable for the process but countable for a single project.
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Origin
From Middle French réhabilitation, itself from Medieval Latin rehabilitatio.