recovery

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: re=cov=er=y
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

recovery, n. 

•  The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.  [1913 Webster]
•  Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc.  [1913 Webster]
•  The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by a verdict and judgment of court.  [1913 Webster]
•  The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had.  Tusser.  [1913 Webster]
•  In rowing, the act of regaining the proper position for making a new stroke.  [1913 Webster]
•  Act of regaining the natural position after curtseying.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  Act of regaining the position of guard after making an attack.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Common recovery (Law), a species of common assurance or mode of conveying lands by matter of record, through the forms of an action at law, formerly in frequent use, but now abolished or obsolete, both in England and America. Burrill. Warren.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

recovery, n. (pl. -ies)
1 the act or an instance of recovering; the process of being recovered.
2 Golf a stroke bringing the ball out of a bunker etc.

Etymology

ME f. AF recoverie, OF reco(u)vree (as RECOVER)

THESAURUS

recovery

Great Leap Forward, advance, advancement, amelioration, amendment, ascent, bettering, betterment, boom, boost, bottoming out, business cycle, business fluctuations, bust, comeback, convalescence, cooling off, crisis, deliverance, delivery, depression, downturn, economic cycle, economic expansion, economic growth, enhancement, enrichment, eugenics, euthenics, expanding economy, expansion, extrication, freeing, furtherance, gain, growth, headway, healing, high growth rate, improvement, increase, liberation, lifesaving, lift, low, market expansion, melioration, mend, mending, peak, peaking, pickup, preferment, progress, progression, promotion, prosperity, rally, ransom, recapture, recession, reclaiming, reclamation, recoup, recoupment, recuperation, redemption, regainment, release, reoccupation, replevin, replevy, repossession, rescue, restoration, resumption, retake, retaking, retrieval, retrieve, return, revindication, revival, rise, salvage, salvation, saving, slowdown, slump, trover, upbeat, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upturn, upward mobility

ROGET THESAURUS

recovery

Improvement

N improvement, amelioration, melioration, betterment, mend, amendment, emendation, mending, advancement, advance, ascent, promotion, preferment, elevation, increase, cultivation, civilization, culture, march of intellect, menticulture, race-culture, eugenics, reform, reformation, revision, radical reform, second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration, purification, oxidation, repair, recovery, revise, new edition, reformer, radical, improving, progressive, improved, better, better off, better for, all the better for, better advised, reformatory, emendatory, reparatory, remedial, corrigible, improvable, accultural, on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on better advice, ad melius inquirendum, urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit.

Restoration

N restoration, restoral, reinstatement, replacement, rehabilitation, reestablishment, reconstitution, reconstruction, reproduction, renovation, renewal, revival, revivessence, reviviscence, refreshment, resuscitation, reanimation, revivification, reviction, Phenix, reorganization, renaissance, second youth, rejuvenescence, new birth, regeneration, regeneracy, regenerateness, palingenesis, reconversion, redress, retrieval, reclamation, recovery, convalescence, resumption, resumption, sanativeness, recurrence, rechauffe, rifacimento, cure, recure, sanation, healing, redintegration, rectification, instauration, repair, reparation, remanufacture, recruiting, cicatrization, disinfection, tinkering, reaction, redemption, restitution, relief, tinker, cobbler, vis medicatrix, curableness, restored, redivivus, convalescent, in a fair way, none the worse, rejuvenated, restoring, restorative, recuperative, sanative, reparative, sanatory, reparatory, curative, remedial, restorable, recoverable, sanable, remediable, retrievable, curable, in statu quo, as you were, phr, revenons a nos moutons, medecin, gueris-toi toi- meme, vestigia nulla retrorsum.

Acquisition

N acquisition, gaining, obtainment, procuration, procurement, purchase, descent, inheritance, gift, recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin, restitution, redemption, salvage, trover, find, trouvaille, foundling, gain, thrift, money-making, money grubbing, lucre, filthy lucre, pelf, loaves and fishes, the main chance, emolument, profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit, avails, income, proceeds, produce, product, outcome, output, return, fruit, crop, harvest, second crop, aftermath, benefit, sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool, pot, wealth, subreption, obreption, stealing, acquiring, acquired, profitable, advantageous, gainful, remunerative, paying, lucrative, lucri causa.

Taking

N taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.

Restitution

N restitution, return, rendition, reddition, restoration, reinvestment, recuperation, rehabilitation, reparation, atonement, compensation, indemnification, release, replevin, redemption, recovery, remitter, reversion, restoring, recuperative, suum cuique.