Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
recovery. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
recovery, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
recovery in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
recovery you have here. The definition of the word
recovery will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
recovery, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English recoveree, from Old French recovree, from recovrer (“recover”).
Pronunciation
Noun
recovery (countable and uncountable, plural recoveries)
- The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.
- A return to normal health.
- A return to former status or position.
- The act of regaining the natural position after curtseying.
- The act of regaining the position of guard after making an attack, in fencing, sparring, etc.
- (economics) Renewed growth after a slump.
2022 January 12, “Network News: Further extension to Transport for London emergency funding”, in RAIL, number 948, page 8:Byford said: "There is no UK recovery from the pandemic without a London recovery, and there is no London recovery without a properly funded transport network.
- (finance) The recovery of debt.
- (law) A verdict giving somebody the right to recover debts or costs.
- (mining) The extraction of an ore from a mine, or of a metal from an ore
- (gaming) The ability to recover or regain health.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost
- Arabic: اِسْتِعَادَة f (istiʕāda)
- Bulgarian: възстановяване (bg) n (vǎzstanovjavane), възвръщане n (vǎzvrǎštane)
- Catalan: recuperació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 恢復/恢复 (zh) (huīfù)
- Dutch: terugwinning f
- Finnish: talteenotto
- French: récupération (fr) f, rétablissement (fr) m, recouvrement (fr)
- Galician: recuperación (gl) f
- Georgian: მორჩენა (morčena)
- German: Wiedererlangung f, Wiedergewinnung f, Zurückgewinnung f
- Greek: ανάκτηση (el) f (anáktisi)
- Hungarian: visszaszerzés (hu), visszanyerés (hu)
- Interlingua: recuperation
- Irish: aisghabháil f
- Italian: recupero (it) m
- Japanese: 回収 (ja) (かいしゅう, kaishū)
- Latin: sanatio f
- Middle English: recoveraunce, recoveryng, recoverer, recovere
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: berging m or f
- Nynorsk: berging f
- Portuguese: recuperação (pt) f
- Romanian: recuperare (ro) f
- Russian: возвра́т (ru) m (vozvrát), получе́ние вновь n (polučénije vnovʹ), получе́ние обра́тно n (polučénije obrátno)
- Spanish: recuperación (es) f
|
return to normal health
- Arabic: شِفَاء m (šifāʔ), تَعَافِي (taʕāfī)
- Azerbaijani: şəfa, sağalma
- Belarusian: ачу́ньванне n (ačúnʹvannje), по́праўка f (pópraŭka), папра́ўка f (papráŭka), паздараве́нне n (pazdaravjénnje)
- Bengali: শাফা (bn) (śafa)
- Bulgarian: оздравяване (bg) n (ozdravjavane)
- Catalan: recuperació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 復原/复原 (zh) (fùyuán), 復甦/复苏 (zh) (fùsū), 回復/回复 (zh) (huífù)
- Czech: zotavení n
- Danish: bedring c, restitution (da) c
- Dutch: herstel (nl) n, genezing (nl) f
- Esperanto: resanigo
- Finnish: paraneminen, elpyminen (fi)
- French: guérison (fr) f, rétablissement (fr) f
- German: Genesung (de) f, Erholung (de) f, Gesundung (de) f, Heilung (de) f
- Greek: ανάρρωση (el) f (anárrosi)
- Ancient: ἀνάρρωσις f (anárrhōsis)
- Hungarian: gyógyulás (hu), felgyógyulás (hu), felépülés (hu)
- Irish: biseach m
- Italian: recupero (it)
- Japanese: 回復 (ja) (かいふく, kaifuku)
- Korean: 회복 (ko) (hoebok)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: چاکبوونەوە (çakbûnewe)
- Kyrgyz: шыпаа (ky) (şıpaa)
- Maori: mātūtūtanga
- Middle English: recoveraunce, recoveryng, recoverer, recovere
- Occitan: garison (oc) f
- Polish: zdrowienie (pl) n, poprawa (pl) f, rekonwalescencja (pl) f, powrót do zdrowia m
- Portuguese: recuperação (pt) f
- Russian: выздоровле́ние (ru) n (vyzdorovlénije), попра́вка (ru) f (poprávka)
- Serbo-Croatian: oporav m, oporava f, oporavak (sh) m, ozdravljenje (sh) n
- Spanish: recuperación (es) f
- Swedish: återhämtning (sv) c
- Ukrainian: ви́дужання n (výdužannja), оду́жання n (odúžannja)
|
economics: renewed growth after a slump
Translations to be checked
Middle English
Noun
recovery
- Alternative form of recoveree