reclamator

reclamator (plural reclamators)

1. A person, company or device which reclaims something, especially useful soil (or useful elements in soil) from unusable soil.
   • 1975, Private Eye:

     But a condition of the deal is that NCT gets Persia rid of the £36 million it has out on loans, much of it to land reclamators specialising in such socially desirable activities as 'gentrifying ' run-down residential areas and flat breaking ...

   • 2006, Walter Horst, M.K. Schenk, A. Bürkert, N. Claassen, H. Flessa, W.B. Frommer, Heiner E. Goldbach, H.-W. Olfs, V. Römheld, B. Sattelmacher, U. Schmidhalter, S. Schubert, N. von Wirén, L. Wittenmayer, Plant Nutrition: Food security and sustainability of agro-ecosystems through basic and applied research, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 484:

     Humic soil reclamators as depressors of heavy metal (radionuclide) accumulation by plants
     A. M. Abramets and E. N. Rovdan - Institute for Problems of Natural Resources Use and Ecology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

   • 2011, Michael Okuda, Denise Okuda, Debbie Mirek, The Star Trek Encyclopedia, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     soil reclamators. Farm equipment developed by the Bajoran agricultural ministry. The reclamators allowed the Bajoran farmland, which had been poisoned by the Cardassians prior to their departure, to be detoxified and ...

   • 2012, Aimery Thomas, Primae Noctis, Aimery Thomas, →ISBN:

     As reclamators moved along, they generated an electromagnetic containment field over areas immediately below them. The fields ensnared errant, high-energy particles that broke apart the subatomic bonds that held rusted vehicles, buildings ...

   • 2013, Phil Farrand, NITPICKER'S GUIDE FOR DEEP SPACE (NEXT), Dell, →ISBN:

     Almost immediately Winn decides to move several soil reclamators from Dahkur Province to Rakantha Province—formerly a rich farming area. Like much of Bajor, the Cardassians poisoned its soil as a parting gift.

reclāmātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of reclāmō

Borrowed from French réclamateur.

reclamator m (plural reclamatori)

1. claimant