recoveryn.
/rᵻˈkʌv(ə)ri/, U.S. /rəˈkəv(ə)ri/, /riˈkəv(ə)ri/ I. Senses relating to gaining or regaining possession, esp. of something lost or taken away.
* Senses relating primarily to immaterial things.† 1. Law. A fine, charge, etc., recovered at law. Cf. fine n.1 6. Obsolete. rare.† 6. The act or opportunity of reaching or getting to a place. Obsolete.
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society > authority > punishment > fine > [noun]
witereden688
witec890
guiltwite964
ransom?c1225
amends1340
forfeiture1399
ush1417
recoverya1422
issue1424
unlaw1424
fine1430
forfeita1475
unlay1497
multure1533
estreatc1550
mulct1584
forfeitment1597
a1422 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 419 [To pay fines, etc.] recovered in the seide Maires Court, vnto the seide Maire and to such personeȝ as the seide recovrees belongeth to of right.
2. Law.† c. figurative and in figurative context. Obsolete.
a. The fact or process of gaining or regaining possession of or a right to property, compensation, etc., by a legal process or judgment; spec. (also common recovery) a process by which entailed estate may be transferred from one person to another, based on a legal fiction involving the collusive default of a third party (now historical). Cf. fine n.1 9b, fine and recovery at fine n.1 Phrases 5.The legal validity of this method of breaking entails (in English Law) rested mainly on a 1472 judicial decision, in Taltarum's case: see Year-bks. Edw. IV (1566) an. 12, Mich. Pl. 25 f. 19. Among the enactments regulating its use, the most important are 7 Hen. VIII, c. 4, 14 Geo. II c. 20, and 3–4 Will. IV c. 74 (which enacted the abolition of common recovery; see quot. 1833). For further information on the early history of common recovery, see J. Biancalana Fee Tail & Common Recovery in Medieval Eng. (2001).
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society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [noun] > conveyance of an estate tail > recovery
recovery1424
feigned recovery1540
true recovery1607
single recovery1670
retreat?c1682
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > claim at law > [noun] > fact of succeeding in claim
recoverera1325
recover?a1424
recovery1424
1424 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1909) 291 (MED) If any fele him greved ageyn this establement have be [read he] recoveree a geyn the Shireve of suche grevaunce to hym done.
1472–3 Rolls of Parl. VI. 4/2 We..graunten..to pay the x part of..the issues and profittes..which eny persone..hath..by any manere execution by any Statute or Recovery extended.
1540 R. Taverner Principal Lawes Customes & Estatutes Eng. f. 94v Common recoueries to be suffered of any landes holden of the king in chiefe.
1594 W. West Symbolæogr.: 2nd Pt. §136 The end and effect of such recoueries, is to discontinue and distroy estates tailes, remainders, and reuersions and barre the former owners thereof.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 103 A great buyer of Land, with his Statuts, his recognisances, his fines, his double vouchers, his recoueries . View more context for this quotation
1668 S. Pepys Diary 7 Feb. (1976) IX. 55 Mr. Jackson..hath this day suffered a Recovery on his estate, in order to the making her a settlement.
1741 Act 14 Geo. II c. 20 (title) An act to amend the law concerning common recoveries.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 358 The subsequent proceedings are made up into a record or recovery roll.
1833 Act 3 & 4 William IV c. 74 (title) An act for the abolition of fines and recoveries and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance.
1861 H. S. Maine Anc. Law viii. 289 Those famous Fines and Recoveries which did so much to undo the harshest trammels of the feudal land-law.
1951 A. Koestler Age of Longing i. i. 9 Your hand..is on lend-lease to a vicious old man; it is my recovery grant, or whatever you call it.
1995 Times Sc. Law Rep. 18 Apr. 34/1 The Scottish court would grant the patentee an order for the recovery of documents necessary for him to aver precisely how his patent was allegedly being infringed.
b. In various forms of legal recovery.† (a) feigned recovery: = common recovery at sense 2a. Obsolete.† (b) true recovery: a recovery not based on a legal fiction involving the collusive default of a third party; opposed to common recovery. Obsolete.
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society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [noun] > conveyance of an estate tail > recovery
recovery1424
feigned recovery1540
true recovery1607
single recovery1670
retreat?c1682
1540 R. Taverner Princ. Lawes Customes & Estatutes Eng. f. 75 Furthermore no statute staple, statute marchant, nor execution by elegit shalbe herafter auoyded by any such fayned recouery.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Iii3v/1 A feigned recouerie is (as the Ciuilians call it) quaedam fictio iuris. a certaine forme, or course set downe by lawe, to be obserued for the beter assuring of lands or tenements vnto vs.
1784 J. Reeves Hist. Eng. Law II. ii. xiv. 342 We have seen..that the clergy had invented a method of conveying in mortmain, by means of a feigned recovery, upon a præcipe quod redat, &c.
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society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [noun] > conveyance of an estate tail > recovery
recovery1424
feigned recovery1540
true recovery1607
single recovery1670
retreat?c1682
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Iii3v/1 A true Recouerie is an actuall, or reall recouerie of any thing, or the value thereof by Iudgement.
(c) single recovery: a court's grant of recovery that is limited to the full value of the property, compensation, or other relief sought by a party. double (also treble, quadruple) recovery: a recovery for damages or other compensation in an amount up to twice (or three or four times) as much as the actual loss. Now chiefly U.S.
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society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [noun] > conveyance of an estate tail > recovery
recovery1424
feigned recovery1540
true recovery1607
single recovery1670
retreat?c1682
1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. (at cited word) This feigned Tenant, if it be a single Recovery, is made to appear and vouch the Bag-bearer of Writs, for the Custos Brevium, in the Court of Common Pleas.
1738 R. Manby Law & Pract. Fines & Recoveries 257 The Recovery with a single Voucher, which is called a single Recovery, is used to bar the Tenant in Tail, and his Heirs, of such Estate-tail which is in his Possession.
1860 Rep. Court of Chancery New Jersey 1 425 It is objected that a single recovery in ejectment is not conclusive.
1862 Rep. Supreme Court Wisconsin 13 97 If the borrower chooses..to waive his right to a treble recovery.
1899 W. M. McKinney & T. J. Michie Encycl. Reading & Practice 481 Usually and unless there are special provisions to the contrary, there should be a single recovery for all the elements of damage for which a recovery is asked and which the evidence warrants, and the verdict should make a single reward.
1905 S. D. Thompson Comm. Law of Negligence in All Relations 359 The charge in another case that the jury should include in the damages whatever the evidence showed the plaintiff had lost in being rendered unable to work or less able to work, and also what he had paid out for medicines and doctors' bills by reason of the injuries, and also a reasonable pecuniary compensation for the bodily injuries, disabilities, pain, suffering, and distress caused by the accident, was likewise held objectionable as authorizing a double recovery.
1910 Catholic Encycl. (1913) IX. 85/2 In some instances, a triple, or even quadruple, recovery might be had.
1991 P. A. LeBel John Barleycorn must Pay 235 At first glance, the plaintiff might appear to be getting a double recovery, first, from the health insurer and the employer, and second from the defendant who is now held liable to compensate the plaintiff for the same item of loss.
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1584 R. Greene Gwydonius f. 37 Yet Madame (quoth he) where the debt is confest, ther remaineth some hope of recouerie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. ii. 197 If the diuell haue him not in fee-simple, with fine and recouery [etc.] . View more context for this quotation
1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 30 A pledge..of this covenant of peace, made betweene us; and an ernest of the recovery, and free grant of this Well.
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iii. xv. 182 My Grief's entayl'd upon my wastfull breath, Which no Recov'ry can cut off, but death.
1772 R. Jones Friendship with God vii. 190 Without our sincere and vigorous attempts for a recovery, our shame will be entailed upon us for ever.
3. † b. The cure or healing of an illness, wound, etc. Obsolete.
a. The restoration of a person (or more rarely, a thing) to a healthy or normal condition, or to consciousness. Frequently with of or possessive.
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the world > health and disease > healing > [noun] > restoration to health
recovery1517
restorative1528
restoration1638
recuperation1703
revification1712
resuscitation1721
re-establishment1753
recruital1754
recruitment1862
recuperance1887
pickupa1916
the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] > restoration to sound, proper, or normal state
reparation1389
restaurationa1393
redressing1426
repaira1500
instaurationa1603
recovery1669
working over1695
repristination1753
restoration1765
reconditioning1800
1517 R. Fox tr. St. Benedict Rule xxxvi. sig. Eiiv Eatynge of fleshe, may be graunted all way, to suche as be seeke and feble, for their more spedy recouery.
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 v. v. 44 What doth she swound? make meanes for Her recouerie?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 41 To fetch my poore distracted husband hence,..And beare him home for his recouerie . View more context for this quotation
1669 N. Morton New-Englands Mem. 180 This year much of the Wheat is destroyed with Blasting and Mildew,..but the Lord hath sent much Rain for the recovery of the remainder.
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iv. 413 The greatest and most important Strokes for the Recovery of the Patient, must be made at the time of the Invasion, or first State of this Disease.
1774 W. Cullen Let. to Ld. Cathcart (1776) 5 Although the drowned persons have lain for several hours in the water, attempts ought to be made for their recovery.
1828 N. Hawthorne Fanshawe vii. 97 Edward..was little inclined to co-operate in any measures that he might adopt for her recovery.
1884 Law Times 77 20/1 It is the interest of the keeper of an asylum to retard or conceal the recovery of his patient.
1910 Jrnl. Physiol. 41 368 (heading) The recovery of muscle and nerve after the passage of a propagated disturbance.
1989 P. Dally Elizabeth Barrett Browning viii. 84 Her recovery was helped by the unusually mild winter of 1842.
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the world > health and disease > healing > [noun] > a cure or remedy
leechcraftc888
leechdoma900
bootOE
helpc1000
pigment?a1200
remedya1382
medicinea1393
application?a1425
sanativec1440
healer?1523
recovery1576
curative1577
mithridate1587
cure1623
presidy1657
therapeutic1842
therapeutical1845
1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health ii. f. 60v As touching the recouerie of swounding, and great hazard of death by it, the learned Mathiolus reporteth that he hath of proofe, founde manye tymes the contrarie.
1589 Trve Coppie Disc. Voy. Spaine 11 The recouerie of their diseases dooth acquaint their bodies with the ayre of the Countries where they be.
1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 392 In the recouery of some desperate sicknes, wound, or the like.
1659 J. Gamble Ayres & Dialogues II. 36 (title) Upon recovery of a fit of sickness.
1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator I. 47 Soon after the Recovery of his Wounds.
1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph I. 12 Ordered by the physicians to Spa for the recovery of a lingering disorder.
1797 J. O'Keefe Wicklow Mountains ii. i. 29 I thought I'd bring this fine glass of Goat's milk, (presents) drink it miss, for the recovery of your consumption.
4.
a. The regaining or restoration to one's control or possession of a thing lost, stolen, or otherwise taken away, retrieval; the possibility of recovering such a thing.
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the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > back or again
coveringc1230
restaurationa1398
recoverance1398
retrievingc1425
recoverc1430
readeption1471
recuperation1481
recovery1523
retiring1548
repossessing1576
regetting1585
recoverment1591
repossession1592
refetching1624
regainment1642
recooper1652
reattainment1661
reacquisition1719
revendication1760
retrievation1806
retrieve1853
regain1860
the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > back or again > of territory, etc.
recovery1523
the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > back or again > possibility of recovering something
recovery1523
recoverableness1610
recoverability1859
retrievability1884
society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > capturing > recapturing > recovery of territory
recovering1380
recovery1523
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccclxxxi. f. 254/2 Ther fell in England great myschife and rebellion of mouyng of the comon people, by which dede, England was at a poynt to haue ben lost without recouery.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 17 Suffur not your tyme vaynly to pas, wych wythout recovery fleth a way.
1555 R. Eden tr. Coppie of Bull in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 171v Th[e]..recouerie of the kyngedome of Granata.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 26 So farre from endeuouring a recouery..they jested at the losse.
1628 in A. Morgan Univ. Edinb. Charters (1937) 162 To perseu all such who had borrowd bookes out of the bibliotheck for racoverie of the saids bookes.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 130 The Recovery of Six Thousand Pounds, which I thought I had lost.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. xlix. 120 After the recovery of Italy and Africa by the arms of Justinian.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. iv. 143 The English now elevated their hopes to the recovery of the province.
1863 Sat. Rev. 23 May 675 A very interesting recovery of the whole plan of a Norman conventual church.
1923 H. J. Laski Let. 23 Oct. in Holmes-Laski Lett. (1953) I. 553 I have read a new Early Life of Burke which is full of good things, especially in its recovery of some youthly essays of his which have not appeared before.
1991 Mod. Power Syst. Sept. 69/3 The ash handling system includes..recovery of fly ash from the boiler convection sections and precipitators.
b. The regaining or restoration of one's health or a mental state.
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the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > [noun] > of one's health
recovery1540
canting1691
the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > back or again > of one's health, etc.
recovery1540
betterness1692
1540 R. Morison Introd. Wisedome sig. Giiv It is wyckednes, to ieste uppon holye thinges,..euen as a man shulde sprinkle durte in a medicine, adorned for recouerie of helthe.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 319 That for the better recouery of my health, I should returne into England.
1608 W. Crashaw tr. N. Balbani Newes from Italy xxx. 81 She was neuer from about him, and saw that he wanted nothing which the world could yeelde for the recouery of his health.
1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. ii. §82. 472/2 He retired for recovery of his health.
1731 R. Gwinnett et al. Pylades & Corinna I. 50 The most desirable News of the Recovery of your Health.
1771 T. Nugent tr. B. Cellini Life I. ii. vi. 358 I made the recovery of my health my chief care.
1816 J. Austen Emma II. ii. 27 They depended more on a few months spent in her native air, for the recovery of her health, than on any thing else. View more context for this quotation
1877 A. Winchell Reconcil. Sci. & Relig. v. 103 The recovery of that state of equilibrium which had been disturbed.
1900 Dict. National Biogr. LXI. 181/1 Remove him from the Clink for the recovery of his health.
1993 M. Glasscoe Eng. Medieval Mystics (BNC) 144 The gradual progress in recovery of full health.
c. The collection of a debt, esp. by means of a formal process.In legal contexts, this sense overlaps with sense 2a.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt > recovering a debt
recovery1566
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xxxiv. f. 69v Considering with hymself (that ouer and besides his vaine abode, for recouery of his debtes) that he was in daunger of his life, he purposed to retourne into Italie.
1652 S. Hartlib Cornu Copia 14 They may have such reall and pertinent courses observed and peracted for..recovery of their debts, whereby they may be made willing (if able) for all conscionable performances.
1685 J. Keble Rep. King's Bench 1 947 Recovery of Debt on Fi. fa. directed to the Sheriff into London.
1745 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) V. 29 An act for the more easy and speedy Recovery of small Debts.
1798 W. Hutton Life 123 Courts of Requests or Courts of Conscience, for the recovery of small debts, were first established in the reign of Henry VIII., and they now exist under local Acts, in many populous places.
1854 Munim. Univ. Glasguensis (Maitland Club) II. Table p. iv A Promotor or General Sindic to be elected annually for the recovery of University debts, and the detection of contraventions of the Statutes.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 677 The dun for the recovery of bad and doubtful debts.
1964 W. D. Park Collection of Debts (ed. 2) iii. 37 The court has power, in any action for the recovery of a debt or damages, to order interest at such rate as it thinks fit on the whole or part of the debt for the whole or part of the period it has been due.
2001 T. Lyons EC Customs Law x. 320 There are specific provisions dealing with the customs debt and its recovery in the context of the transit procedure.
d. An amount recovered, frequently contrasted with initial loss or expenditure.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun]
earningeOE
issuea1325
lucrec1380
lucre of gainc1386
return1419
feracityc1420
revenue1427
vantagec1430
afframing1440
revenue1440
availc1449
proventc1451
provenuec1487
rent1513
fardel1523
chevisance1535
gains1546
commodity1577
proceed1578
increasal1601
benefit1606
endowment1615
gaininga1631
superlucration1683
profit1697
bunce1706
making1837
bunt1851
plunder1851
yield1877
recovery1931
earner1970
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > ratio of final product to log volume
recovery1958
1931 Economist 17 Jan. 112/2 Total recoveries for December were, for the first time for over three years, slightly (30,000,000 francs) below the expected level.
1958 N.Z. Timber Jrnl. May 56/1 Recovery, the ratio of final product to log volume in timber conversion.
1973 J. L. Gregoire in V. S. White Mod. Sawmill Techniques v. 118 Figure 5.2 shows typical recovery on a 9-inch-diameter log 16 feet long with 1/16-inch taper per foot... From this log we are able to obtain a 1×4 14 feet long and six pieces of 2×4 16 feet long.
1990 R. Izhar Accounting, Costing, & Managem. ii. xvi. 245 Now that the accountant knows the amount of overhead charge to each production cost centre it only remains for him to establish rates for their recovery through the jobs which pass through them.
5.
a. Restoration or return to a higher or better (esp. spiritual) state.
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society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > [noun]
chastyinga1300
amendmentc1300
risingc1350
castigationc1397
reclaima1400
reformation1425
emendationc1540
emendingc1542
recovery1542
reparence1556
emendment1569
reduction1610
reclamation1629
reclaimer1650
reform1738
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 4 A manne wylfully beeyng as a bonde seruaunt to pleasures of the bodye... In suche persons..there was nomaner hope of recouerie.
1593 G. Harvey New Let. in Wks. (1884) I. 289 Were I not content, in some little hope of his finall recouery,..to do him a meritorious fauour by concealing his vtter discredit [etc.].
1621 T. Bedford Sinne unto Death 61 It shall be lawfull sometime to determine, whether he that falleth, fall desperately, or whether there be any place for recouery.
1674 (title) Captives bound in chains,..the misery of graceless sinners; and their recovery by Christ.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. Concl. 295 Indeed neither Reason nor Analogy would lead us to think,..that the Interposition of Christ,..would be of that Efficacy for Recovery of the World, which the Scripture teaches us it was.
1774 J. Weir Divinity of Christ 72 My chief end in writing this, is indeed, Sir, with a view to the glory of God, your spiritual recovery.
1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. i. 24 A modified system, which shall..include the provision of means for recovery from a lapsed state.
1853 J. Martineau in Christian Teacher 9 iv. 91 He is fitted to be among the prophets of recovery, who may prepare for us a more wholesome future.
1898 A. G. Mortimer Catholic Faith & Pract. ii. xi. 316 No man..can merit the first grace, or justification, nor, if he fall into mortal sin, can he merit a recovery from that state. Nor can he merit final perseverance.
1922 S. Greenwood Footsteps of Israel xvi. 170 Whether the whereabouts of Israel were known to the rest of the world or not is a matter of small moment beside the question of her moral and spiritual recovery.
2004 G. St John Rave Culture & Relig. i. i. 28 The strong revivalist sensibility in the rave imagination is consistent with the mood of cultural and spiritual recovery characteristic of Neo-Paganism.
b. The reclamation of wasteland, esp. land previously under water, for cultivation or construction; = reclamation n. 6a.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun]
amendment1483
improvement1549
improvinga1563
recoverya1632
mendment1644
cultivation1791
reclaim1799
reclamation1810
intaking1812
redemption1812
clearing1821
reclaimment1852
land reclamation1881
breaking-in1891
greening1955
a1632 T. Middleton & J. Webster Any Thing for Quiet Life (1662) sig. B2 Your devising new Water-mill for recovery of drown'd Land,..will certainly draw you to'th bottom.
1723 J. Swift Some Arguments against Power of Bishops 6 The Reasons for the Rise of Value in Lands are of two Kinds. Of the first Kind, are long Peace and Settlement after the Devastations of War; Plantations, Improvements of bad Soil, Recovery of Bogs and Marshes, [etc.].
1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. i. iii. 121 The special work of his reign was the recovery of the soil.
1959 United Asia 11 313/2 It coordinated recovery of marshland with projects covering agricultural development of mountain and valley areas, control of rivers and torrents.
1971 Norspec 70, North Sea Spectrum 61/1 The recovery of inundated areas from the sea and the carrying out of the Delta Plan..formed a large incentive to develop techniques to reclaim land under difficult circumstances.
c. Economics. The process or fact of returning to an improved economic or financial condition, esp. on the part of a country or its economy; economic improvement, esp. after a recession; an instance of this.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > states or trends of the economy
inflation1821
economic cycle1832
recovery1843
downdraught1852
perfect competition1853
downturn1858
softness1872
slump1888
downtrend1890
sag1891
under-consumption1895
recession1905
downdrift1906
economic recession1908
air pocket1913
stickiness1913
trough1916
deflation1920
downswing1922
slowdown1922
scissors1924
scissors crisis1925
uptrend1926
reflation1932
depresh1933
upswing1934
stagnation1938
countercycle1944
fiscal cliff1957
turn-down1957
stagflation1965
soft landing1973
slumpflation1974
downer1976
1843 Economist 2 Sept. 14/2 The cotton districts showed an earlier and more palpable evidence of recovery, and the great advantages of low prices are very evident in this case.
1900 Economist 1 Dec. 1689/1 A recovery has taken place in wool.
1932 A. Salter Recovery iv. i. 282 Here what is needed is a moratorium of several years, say four or five, to cover the depression and a period for Germany's recovery after it.
1940 G. Crowther Outl. Money iii. 115 Prices rose with staggering rapidity, until..they were one million million times the pre-war level. This is ‘inflation without recovery’.
1958 Times 28 June 11/7 The pound staged a remarkable recovery against the United States dollar.
1974 B. Pearce tr. S. Amin Accumulation on World Scale II. iv. 497 In order to explain world recovery, all that remains is to analyze the effects of new techniques.
1992 Investors Chron. 23 Oct. 22/2 WHS's results for the year to May show that it's weathering the recession extremely well. Its strong market shares in many areas will drive profits in a recovery.
d. Mining. The restoration of a disused mine to working condition. rare.
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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] > return to a previous better state
regressa1522
regression1583
retreat1600
recovery1932
snap-back1949
1932 Trans. Inst. Mining Engineers 82 452 The recovery of two separate underground districts which had been sealed off for several years due to the occurrence of fire.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > arrival > [noun]
tocomeeOE
hithercomec900
comeOE
comingc1300
venue?a1400
arrival1518
arrivea1538
recovery?c1550
income1566
arrivance1583
invention1612
adventure1623
landing1705
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > reaching a point or place > [noun] > arrival
tocomeeOE
hithercomec900
comeOE
comingc1300
tocominga1333
venue?a1400
arrival1518
arrivea1538
recovery?c1550
income1566
arrivance1583
invention1612
adventure1623
landing1705
rearrival1738
?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Three Bks. Eng. Hist. (1844) xxv. 213 To thintent that his adversaryes showld not have ready recovery of the shore and coome a land.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures 318 We were already past threescore leagues beyond the Port;..by reason whereof, we were fain to tack about for the recovery of it fifteen days.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 120 The Master..refus'd to hearken to us, and being a request much to his disadvantage, slighted us and went on, till he was past recovery of those Ilands.
** Senses relating primarily to material things.
7. Something that has been regained or recovered. rare.
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the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > that which is obtained or acquired > again
recovery1771
1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. I. Pref. 5 All these minute recoveries could be inserted only to the exclusion of more material facts.
1990 Deccan Herald (Bangalore) 29 Jan. 7/1 According to a police press note, the recoveries included gold jewellery weighing 1.44 kg, silver ingots weighing 150 gm, Rs. 52,000 in cash and wrist watches.
8. The extraction of a useful substance from waste material; the retrieval of a substance that has been used in a chemical or industrial process; the utilization of waste heat from an industrial process. Also: the extraction of a usable substance from a mixture or from raw material.secondary, tertiary recovery: see the first element.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > [noun] > processing > extracting
extraction1605
rendering1780
recovery1867
1867 J. Napier Man. Electro-Metall. 556 (heading) Recovery of mercury from waste zinc.
1906 R. W. Sindall Paper Technol. iv. 37 (heading) Soda recovery.
1923 W. H. Walker et al. Princ. Chem. Engin. vii. 228 (heading) Recovery of waste heat from furnaces.
1951 K. K. Landes Petroleum Geol. xi. 621 Modern production methods..result in a much higher percentage of ultimate recovery and..a lower percentage of residual oil left underground.
1962 F. T. Day Introd. to Paper iv. 40 The excess water which falls through the machine wire bed flows away for recovery.
1984 G. H. Clarfield & W. M. Wiecek Nucl. Amer. v. 126 Recovery of fissionable materials from wastes at Hanford might help eke out the supply.
2007 Energy Policy 35 2623/1 Potential energy recovery from residual waste could account for as much as 17% of total UK electrical energy demand by 2020.
9.
a. Astronomy. The observation of an astronomical object following an extended period during which it has not been visible or observed, esp. the sighting of a periodic comet.
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1872 J. R. Hind Let. 18 Oct. in Astron. Reg. Nov. 258 The only clue I have been able to discover to a possible recovery of one of these supposed planetary bodies.
1895 Science 5 July 6/1 This discovery is a ‘recovery’ of a comet after sixteen years.
1925 Observatory 48 82 [Comets] Borrelly and Temple-Swift will be fairly well placed in October; the latter has not been since 1908, three revolutions ago, so its recovery would be welcome.
1964 Sky & Telescope 28 268/3 The famous lost short-period comets are often objects whose ephemerides were not sufficiently precise to permit recovery.
1995 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 19 Aug. Comets are discovered at the rate of 30 to 40 a year, many recoveries of previously observed comets as they make their return to our part of the solar system.
b. Astronautics. The process or action of getting a satellite or spacecraft safely back to earth after a flight; an instance of this.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > construction and servicing aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > retrieval of spacecraft or satellite after flight
recovery1949
1949 Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. 8 197 Two possibilities for increasing the chances for physical recovery after impact seemed worthy of investigation.
1961 Ann. Reg. 1960 385 The U.S. Air Force made two further recoveries of the smaller Discoverer satellites by snatching them in mid-air as they floated down towards the sea by parachute.
2007 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 1 Feb. India's space ambitions received a boost last week with the successful return and recovery of an orbiting spacecraft.
10. Zoology (a) The recapture of a ringed or tagged animal after its release; the return or subsequently recorded observation of the ring or tag; = return n. 18b. (b) An instance of this.
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the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [noun] > return or capture of ringed or tagged animal
recovery1909
return1909
1909 Brit. Birds 3 180 Turning now to..the recovery of marked birds, it is as yet too early perhaps to expect many results of interest. The most interesting recovery that has as yet been reported is ring No. 4308.
1940 H. F. Witherby et al. Handbk. Brit. Birds III. 23 Twenty-five recoveries of British ringed nestlings indicate movements of comparatively short distances only.
1959 Listener 19 Feb. 321/1 We have been marking young seals with identity tags since 1951..and we have had some good recoveries.
1976 L. Brown Brit. Birds of Prey ix. 114 Most of the recoveries are of birds which died unnatural deaths.
2002 Acta Oecologica 23 208/2 The recovery data obtained from the Spanish Ringing Office, the Copenhagen Bird Ringing Centre and Euring were collected over 69 years.
11. Chiefly British. The retrieval and transportation of a damaged or disabled vehicle from the site of an accident, breakdown, etc., to a place with facilities to carry out repairs, or to a particular destination.Originally in military contexts; now more usually with reference to commercial services which convey broken-down vehicles to a garage or other destination if immediate roadside repair is not possible. Frequently attributive or as the second element in compounds, as recovery service, breakdown recovery, etc. Cf. recovery vehicle n. at Compounds 1a.
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1932 Times 23 Sept. 5/4 The recovery of three Carden-Loyd machine-gun carriers by ‘Light-aid detachment’ break-down lorries.
1963 Times 15 Mar. 19/6 (advt.) Vehicle breakdown recovery & garage equipment.
1984 Guardian 8 Dec. 21/2 The Full Service covers the motorist for emergency call-out in the event of either accident or breakdown, and..vehicle recovery to a garage.
1990 Which? Guide New & Used Cars 6/4 Inspection every 12 months at owner's expense. One year free breakdown recovery.
1995 Daily Star 25 Apr. 10 (advt.) All five models in the range come with 3 years Hyundai RAC rescue and recovery service and a 6 year anti-perforation warranty.
2007 Volkswagen Driver Mar. 43/2 The 1.8T still performs surprisingly well with only three spark plugs working and it didn't really justify calling out a recovery truck.
II. Senses related to the regaining of a state or position.
12. The possibility or means of recovering, or being restored, to a former, usual, or correct state; help or remedy. Chiefly in negative construction; now only in beyond (also past) recovery.
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the world > health and disease > healing > [noun]
healingc1000
healthc1000
healc1175
boteningc1300
warishingc1386
cure1393
curationa1398
recovera1398
resuming?a1425
sanationc1440
mendingc1480
guerison1484
recurea1500
recovery1523
resanation1598
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. clxx. 208 The frenche kynges thre sonnes..were right yong of age and of counsell; in them was but small recouery.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. clxx. 743 This domage toucheth us so nyghe that we have no recovery.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxlviiv Nowe I praye [thee] to enforme me in this, or els I holde me without recouerye.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward V f. ij When he perceiued his naturall strength was gone, and hoped litle of recouery.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 7v To ease thy sicknes spedely, er help be past recouery.
1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xxii. viii. 887 Neare this place, at Caspalia, dwelt a Votaresse, who beeing sicke and past recouery, sent her garment to the shrine.
1669 in Rothesay Town Council Rec. (1935) I. 171 Any burges who shall be fund..accessorie..shall lose thair fridome without recoverie.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 200 On purpose to ruine past recovery a country that chiefly subsists by making of silk.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 60 When no Body was found in the House, but that young Woman, who having been infected, and past Recovery, the rest had left her to die by her self.
1765 S. Johnson Pref. to Shakespear's Plays p. xlvi The faults of all [the publishers]..have..corrupted many passages perhaps beyond recovery.
1859 C. Kingsley Misc. I. 92 You have undone me, wounded my credit with the King, past recovery.
a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) i. xiv. 131 Brother Michel counted up ten whom he knew to be sick beyond recovery.
1901 N. Brooks First across Continent xxiv. 315 The liquid had run into a drawer of medicines, which it spoiled beyond recovery.
1951 A. E. Van Vogt Slan 223 The shock of that and other things affected me beyond recovery.
2003 M. E. Landon in Corinth iii. 54/1 While many details of its operation and chronology are beyond recovery, it was clearly a monument of some importance during the Roman period.
13. † c. The action of regaining a normal position after bowing or curtsying. Cf. recover v.1 12e. Obsolete.
a. The action or an act of recovering oneself from a mistake, fall, etc.
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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restoration of a person > recovery from misfortune, error, etc. > [noun]
upcoveringa1300
uprisingc1330
recovera1398
coverancea1400
recoverancea1400
respirement1477
recovery1525
rise1738
comeback1908
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xlv. 154 What became of the kynge..after this discomfyture, made he ony recouery, or dyd he close hymselfe in ony of his townes?
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. viii. sig. Ff4v He driuen was to ground in selfe despight; From whence ere he recouery could gaine, He in his necke had set his foote with fell disdaine. View more context for this quotation
1647 J. Hall Poems ii. 74 That very death gave life to all, And t'all mankind recovery of their Fathers fall.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. i. §1 The conditions on which fallen man may expect a recovery.
1734 D. Waterland Importance Doctr. Trinity vi, in Wks. (1823) V. 233 His mistake had shown some weakness of judgment, but his recovery manifested great strength of mind.
1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 138 To..search the themes, important above all, Ourselves, and our recovery from our fall.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xviii. 133 The effort at recovery is instantaneous.
1956 W. N. Prince Water Skiing for All vi. 99 If you simply hang on to the line and fight for your balance, you will usually make a complete recovery.
2006 in R. Haslam & D. Stubbs Understanding & preventing Falls ii. 18 Grabiner et al...studied the kinematics of recovery from an anteriorly directed stumble induced by an obstacle.
b. The action or an act of regaining an original position, esp. after a rhythmic or set movement.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > [noun] > action of posturing body > act of regaining original position
recovery1702
1702 J. H. Compl. Gentleman Soldier 17 Suffer the butt-end of your Musquet to sink in both hands, till it be perpendicular, the right under the Cock, and the left as high as your Mouth always upon a Recovery.
1714 W. Hope Hope's New Method Fencing (ed. 2) iv. 116 You will not only prevent many a Contre-temps, and even Exchanged Thrust, before Recovery, [etc.].
1765 D. Angelo School of Fencing (ed. 2) 24/1 Your recovery is a half-circle, seconde or tierce.
1876 G. M. Hopkins Wreck of Deutschland xxxii, in Poems (1967) 62 The recurb and the recovery of the gulf's sides, The girth of it and the wharf of it and the wall.
1949 G. Shurr & R. D. Yocom Mod. Dance 173 Practice slowly at first. Fall: one, two, three, four: Recovery.
1949 G. Shurr & R. D. Yocom Mod. Dance 190 Recovery, a series of movements used in order to return to position after a full sequence.
1969 Gloss. Aeronaut. & Astronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) ii. 3 Recovery, The process of returning to substantially straight and level flight from a manoeuvre.
1974 R. J. Mills & E. Butler Tackle Badminton v. 41 Do not..jump up,..as this will make your timing much more difficult and seriously impede the speed of your recovery.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > [noun] > manifestation of respect > bowing, kneeling, or curtseying > a bow or curtsey > act of rising after
recovering1710
recovery1712
recover1852
1712 E. Budgell Spectator No. 277. ¶17 The Curtesy and Recovery, the genteel Trip, and the agreeable Jet, as they are now practised in the Court of France.
1780 J. Hope Thoughts i. 11 I imagined a man could not take a better pattern for a genteel bow and a handsome recovery, than from one of the stalks as it bent beneath the breeze that blew upon it.
1867 ‘Ouida’ Cecil Castlemaine's Gage 3 And practise their curtsey and recovery before their pier-glass.
d. Sport (originally Rowing). The action or an act of returning the body (an oar, etc.) to the correct position for beginning a fresh stroke.to bucket the recovery: see bucket v. 5.
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society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [noun] > rowing > a stroke of or pull at the oars > recovery of oar
recovery1856
society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [noun] > rowing > a stroke of or pull at the oars > recovery of rower
recovery1856
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 480/1 It is clear..that swing is not necessarily bad, but that it requires great skill to combine it with the proper recovery.
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 481/1 Keeping Time, is the feathering of the oars, and their recovery.
1875 T. A. Trollope Diamond cut Diamond I. 209 If a brisk breeze were blowing, his hat would be thrown aside, and ever and anon at the recovery of the oar he would toss back from his face [etc.].
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Apr. 3/2 They now row much longer than they did, their recovery is better.
1901 Daily News 1 Apr. 5/7 [In rowing] Their recovery was lively, their swing-forward remarkably steady and well-balanced.
1948 B. C. Fisher Rowing & Athletics 71 The lively recovery is a showy fallacy and a deadly enemy to oarsmen and rowing.
1991 Bicycling Feb. 90/1 I should have my heel below the pedal during the power stroke and above it during recovery.
2001 Today's Parent June 28/3 The pull buoy..keeps the lower body from sinking, allowing you to concentrate on the pull and recovery of your stroke.
14.
a. Restoration or return to health from illness, an injury, etc.; an instance of this. Also used with respect to an injury: restoration to a healthy state.Also with modifying word, as full recovery, complete recovery, etc.
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the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > [noun]
healingc1000
healc1175
coveringc1230
recovering1380
curinga1382
amendmenta1400
recoverancea1400
sanationc1440
refeting?a1450
mendingc1480
convalescence1490
recovery1533
amendsa1616
restoration1638
upsitting1647
convalescing1650
convalescency1651
reconvalescence1672
analepsis1749
invalescence1755
reformation1772
revalescence1823
pickupa1916
1533 T. Paynell tr. U. von Hutten De Morbo Gallico xxv. f. 66 My body semed to droppe awaye in fylthy matter, to my great peyne and sorowe, and no hope at all of recouerye.
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 318 The vse of it is to dry byles within that be out of hoope of recouery.
1590 W. Clever Flower of Phisicke 93 Yet many of them after any such recouery, are greatlie incumbred with a tisich.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 176 He is so plaguie proud, that the death tokens of it, Crie no recouerie . View more context for this quotation
1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. App. 317 A face whose ruddiness argued a perfect recovery.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 24 Grievously Wounded, but not without hope of Recovery.
1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 55. 352 The Joy of her Majesty's Recovery very much Contributed to the Diversion.
1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 393 He thought the dying hour already come, And a complete recovery struck him dumb.
1820 S. Smith in Lady Holland Mem. (1855) II. 219 Pray tell me how you are, and if you are making a good recovery.
1878 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) ii. iv. 609 Recovery is generally rapid under suitable treatment.
1890 G. Gissing Emancipated II. iv. 291 It was a long and painful illness, and recovery was known to be impossible.
1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 527/2 We are much more likely to be able to look beyond the mere disappearance of symptoms and signs for indication of true recovery..in those illnesses that easily become ‘latent’.
1988 M. Seymour Ring of Conspirators i. 36 On 15 April, the doctors were still promising a recovery.
2003 Holiday Which? Spring 103/1 The illness can last up to 10 days, with full recovery taking two to four weeks.
b. The natural or managed restoration of (the numbers of) a depleted population or species.
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1785 G. Forster Sketches Mythol. & Customs Hindoos 58 It is to this institution..that the generally great population of Hindustan, and its speedy recovery after the calamities of war and famine, must be largely ascribed.
1867 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 30 326 A partial recovery took place in 1856-57, for the weaker members of the population having been carried off by the epidemic.
1922 A. M. Carr-Saunders Population Probl. xi. 299 Disease has been known to remove one-third of the population of a country in two or three years. There does not, however, appear to be a single instance in which migration can be traced to the recovery from such a catastrophe.
1939 F. E. Clements & V. E. Shelford Bio-Ecol. v. 187 In the third year..more than half the mouse population dies of old age... Recovery could start only the following year.
1992 Bird Watching Jan. 36/2 Hopefully, this reflects some recovery of the ‘crashed’ Scandinavian [skylark] population.
2002 Dartmoor Visitor Summer 12/4 A survey of the rare multi-fruited river moss, carried out by Plantlife as part of English Nature's Species Recovery Programme, found a vigorous Dartmoor population on the River Bovey.
c. A room or ward in a hospital reserved for patients recovering from a surgical or medical procedure; = recovery area n. 2.
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1958 J. Adriani & J. B. Parmley Recovery Room xi. 69 Who should accompany patient from operating room to recovery?
1971 T. Thompson Hearts xvi. 235 Zaorski slapped him instantly into Recovery, where nurses could keep an around-the-clock vigil and try to keep him alive long enough for Cooley to operate in the morning.
1997 E. White Farewell Symphony (1998) v. 191 I'd arrive on Friday, the night before her operation, see her Saturday and Sunday in recovery.
2006 Mother & Baby Aug. 16/3 I began to haemorrhage, and lost 1.5 litres of blood—I was in recovery for six hours and everyone was very concerned.
15. Materials Science. Reversion or return of a material, object, or property to a former condition following removal of an applied stress or other influence.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > [noun] > of material things
recovery1846
relaxation1867
1846 D. H. Mahan Elem. Course Civil Engin. (new ed.) 68 To what extent bodies possess the property of total recovery of form, when relieved from a strain, is still a matter of doubt.
1885 P. G. Tait Properties of Matter xi. 218 All elastic recovery in solids is gradual.
1939 R. S. Williams & V. O. Homerberg Princ. Metallogr. (ed. 4) iii. 73 Complete recovery cannot be attained in polycrystalline metals.
1992 New Scientist 28 Mar. 88/2 The device measures and records such things as hardness, springiness or recovery after being compressed.., gumminess and chewiness.
2007 Materials Sci. & Engin. A. 449–51 187/2 Elastic recovery after unloading at low loading rate is larger than that at high loading rate.
16. Sport.
a. Chiefly Baseball and American Football. An act of regaining a missed, dropped, or fumbled ball.
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1880 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 28 June 8/3 Richmond..tried to get second on what looked like a passed ball, but which, by Flint's rapid recovery and beautiful throw to Quest, headed him off.
1930 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 3 Nov. 10/3 A fumble and recovery by Rogers gave the visitors another two points.
1986 D. Forker Baseball Brain Teasers iii. 47 The left fielder makes a quick recovery and throws a perfect one-hop peg to the third baseman to beat the sliding runner.
2007 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 22 Jan. 6 d Colston..fumbled. The recovery by Nathan Vasher set up the Bears' first score.
b. Golf. In full recovery shot. A stroke bringing the ball back to the fairway or green from a hazard or the rough.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > types of shot or stroke
putta1754
like1790
drive1829
tee-shot1850
gobble1857
push shot1865
iron shot1870
push stroke1873
drive-off1884
slice1886
raker1888
foozle1890
hook1890
iron1890
top1890
sclaff1893
brassy shot1894
run1894
chip shot1899
chip1903
pull1903
skimmer1903
draw shot1904
brassy1906
pitch-and-run1908
windcheater1909
air shot1920
chip-in1921
explosion1924
downhiller1925
blast1927
driver1927
shank1927
socket1927
recovery1937
whiff1952
pinsplitter1961
comebacker1965
bump-and-run1981
1937 H. Longhurst Golf xxii. 196 An ideal club for recovery shots is the old-fashioned jigger.
1977 New Yorker 8 Aug. 55/1 After hitting his iron shot..into a bunker behind the green, he chopped his wedge recovery over the green and into Rae's Creek.
1992 Sporting Life 9 Oct. 17/8 After hooking his tee shot into a ditch, Forsbrand touched some leaves on his back swing when attempting his recovery shot.
2000 Guardian (Dar es Salaam) 27 Mar. 19/2 A stunning recovery from a bunker 211 yards out with a five iron to within four feet of the pin.
17. Computing. The reconstruction of software or data after deletion or corruption; the replacement of lost software or data with a backup copy.
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1970 Technometrics 12 276 Recovery from a computer malfunction is a vital part of computer data analysis... Therefore..there should always exist a backup copy.
1975 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 15 Apr. c7/1 Volume was estimated at 22.39 billion shares, pending recovery of some trading data lost in a brief computer malfunction.
1988 Data Rescue Service in comp.newprod (Usenet newsgroup) 1 Feb. We talked one client through a recovery that involved gluing together data from two tar tapes to make a complete tar file.
2006 Gloucestershire Echo (Nexis) 21 Aug. 9 Use only approved tools that can overwrite every aspect of the hard disc, making recovery of the data impossible.
Phrases
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society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [verb (intransitive)] > be nominally deprived by recovery
to suffer a (common) recovery1515
1515 Act 7 Hen. VIII c. 4 Where as dyverse as well noble men as other the Kynges Subjectes have sufferid Recoveries ayenst them of dyvers their Maners Lordshippes Landes & Tenementes.
1629 Vse of Law 66 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light If they make a writing, that one of them shall..suffer a common Recoverie to the other [etc.].
1741 Act 14 Geo. II c. 20 §6 And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the Commencement of this Act, every Recovery already suffered, or hereafter to be suffered, shall be deemed good and valid to all Intents and Purposes.
1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. 379 A Common recovery can in general only be suffered in the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, because a real action cannot be commenced in any other court.
P2. in (also †on the, †upon) recovery: in the process of recovering from an illness, etc.; recuperating, convalescent (cf. on the mend at mend n. 5); now esp. of an addict, victim of abuse, etc., undergoing rehabilitation or treatment.
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the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > recovering [phrase]
in (also on the, upon) recovery1580
on the mend1802
1580 T. Newton Approoued Med. f. 9 The most holsomest wyne for them that bee in recouery from sicknesse (so that they haue no Feuer) is wyne redde in colour.
1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. Lv Good in hecticke feuers: restoreth their strength that are in recouery.
1618 Declar. Demeanor Sir W. Raleigh 33 When hee was vpon recouerie, he dispatched the Land-forces.
1674 T. B. Animadversions F. Loss 85 By continuation of her sickness, whereas others grow weaker and weaker, until they be upon recovery; she wonderfully grew stronger and stronger.
1765 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (Dublin ed.) I. vi. 207 The strangers..had been tended with great Humanity and were, now, on the Recovery.
1789 W. Cowper Let. 4 Feb. (1982) III. 255 Mrs. Unwin is certainly on the recovery.
1801 T. Jefferson Let. 21 Mar. in Writings (1984) 1085 It was not till yesterday I received information that you were still there, had been very ill, but were on the recovery.
1834 H. Evans Diary 27 July in Chrons. Okla. (1925) III. 206 We found this Camp in a desolate situation... The sick some little on the recovery.
1989 Employee Assistance May 14/1 Often, there are adjunct support groups for parents whose children are in recovery.
1997 Details Feb. 104 In a world where all the freaks are tattooed, pierced, or in recovery, Weezer's Rivers Cuomo lives like a hermit, dines on frozen dinners, and loves opera. Is this any way to be a rock star?
P3. on the road to (also of) recovery and variants: on the way to recovering from an illness, etc. Cf. Phrases 2.
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1788 Familar Lett. vi. 18 After remaining speechless four hours, V—— J—— revived, and is now on the road of recovery.
1832 W. R. Clanny Hyperanthraxis 144 The patient is on the road to recovery.
1891 Times 27 Nov. 9/6 Prince George of Wales has been so well for the past 24 hours that he is now believed to be fairly on the road to recovery.
1940 Dunkirk (N.Y.) Evening Observer 1 Oct. 12/1 The latest report from the physicians is that he is further along the road to recovery than his injured team-mates.
1958 Atlanta Daily World 4 Mar. 3/7 The State Health Department's program for burned victims..will help him on the road of recovery.
2006 J. Langley Boys get Anorexia Too i. viii. 34 [Family] can play a vital role in helping and supporting the young person on the long road to recovery.
Compounds
C1.
a. (In senses 4, 9b.)
recovery airfield n.
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1961 Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Mississippi) 11 June 1/3 The recovery airfields might well prove to be the sole lifeline to continued existence for nearby communities.
2006 Aviation Week & Space Technol. (Nexis) 16 Oct. 66 There was another ridge line that we would have to cross as we approached our recovery airfield.
recovery crew n.
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1923 Indianapolis Star 13 Feb. 12/3 Recovery crews tonight were tapping the tenth artery to the south of the main entrance.
1971 Guardian 1 July 1/5 A helicopter-borne recovery crew..found the cosmonauts..without any signs of life.
1976 Daily Times (Lagos) 26 Aug. 9/3 Landings in darkness are generally avoided by Soviet space controllers as they hamper the work of recovery crews.
1991 J. Varley Steel Beach (1993) 193 Cricket hired a p-suit and followed the recovery crews out into the field.
recovery fleet n.
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1920 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Telegram 26 Aug. 9/4 The present recovery fleet consists of six vessels, part of which are already in operation.
1968 Guardian 23 Sept. 1/2 The splash-down appears to have been some way from the recovery fleet.
2000 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 12 Jan. 10 The recovery fleet on the scene was a truly multi-national mixture with vessels from France, Germany, Holland, Spain and, of course, the British Shield representing the UK.
recovery line n.
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1961 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 24 July 18/5 The astronaut..swam over to help attach the recovery line. The rotor wash blew him away.
1976 J. Lee Ninth Man i. i. 8 One of the deck crewmen started paying out the recovery line, and the rubber boat bobbed away from the submarine.
2006 Daily Mail (Nexis) 22 Apr. 3 The seal..then put her two flippers on the recovery lines of our rigid inflatable boat and climbed in.
recovery ship n.
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1883 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Gaz. 23 Apr. 2/4 He was a native of Indiana, and was in command of the recovery ship Franklin.
1962 D. Slayton in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 23 The Navy stuck most of its recovery ships in these big areas.
1994 Vincentian 22 July 16/1 (caption) Astronauts—Mission Commander Armstrong, Lieutenant Col. Collins, and Col. Aldrin in the mobile quarantine facility aboard recovery ship U.S.S. Hornet after their triumphant splashdown in the Pacific.
recovery team n.
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1937 Times 13 July 11/2 Recovery teams are now working in day and night shifts at the Brymbo Colliery,..where..a fire and explosion caused the deaths of 30 miners, rescue workers, and officials.
1976 B. Jackson Flameout (1977) vi. 108 Red Cross volunteers were still carrying coffee and Coke to the recovery teams.
1991 Highways & Transportation Aug. 14/2 When the long contraflows were in operation an additional recovery team was positioned halfway between junctions 4 and 5 to improve the response times.
recovery vehicle n.
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1936 Times 6 Aug. 7/2 With a new 30cwt. six-wheeler recovery vehicle borrowed from the mobilization store at Colchester, they have been able to practise the role of a light aid detachment.
a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) 10 Field workshops with huge recovery vehicles and winches.
1974 A. Douglas Noah's Ark Murders i. 6 The recovery vehicle was positioned directly opposite the car.
2004 P. F. Hamilton Pandora's Star iv. 88 She would wind up..hundreds of kilometres from the recovery vehicles of the caravan.
b. (In sense 8.)
recovery furnace n.
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1942 G. S. Witham Mod. Pulp & Paper Making (ed. 2) viii. 215 The Wagner Recovery Furnace..embodies an attempt to greatly increase the efficiency of heat utilization in the recovery furnace over what is possible with the traditional rotary furnace.
2004 Mondaq Business Briefing (Nexis) 9 Sept. Almost all of the production processes, be it the paper machine, the recovery furnaces or power boilers, are strictly regulated under the Clean Air Act.
recovery plant n.
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1888 Times 3 Apr. 2/6 (advt.) Complete soda recovery plant (two furnaces).
1929 R. H. Clapperton & W. Henderson Mod. Paper-making xxii. 318 The water goes to waste, or back into use, or to a further recovery plant.
1999 Building 4 June 74/2 (advt.) Resin production facility comprising phenol recovery plant, pump house, water storage tank and storage silos.
c. (In sense 14.)
recovery school n. [In early use rendering German Waldschule, literally ‘forest school’, sometimes also Walderholungsstätte, literally ‘forest recovery place’, denoting institutions offering instruction to children in poor health from urban areas.]
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1907 Times 2 Sept. 8/2 For those who were physically inferior to average little ones there should be open air recovery schools that the Germans were proving to be such a success.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 9/4 The establishment of open-air recovery schools.
2006 Boston Globe (Nexis) 17 Sept. d8 Instead of feeling pressed to get high, students in recovery school feel pushed to stay sober.
recovery unit n.
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1947 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 47 686/3 Two graduate nurses were assigned to this unit. The recovery unit is covered for eleven hours daily.
1965 Nursing Times 5 Feb. p. iv/2 (advt.) Recovery Unit.
1986 M. Howard Expensive Habits 116 He might wait in the recovery unit by his mother's bed.
1991 Nursing Times 6 Feb. 86/1 (advt.) Staff Nurse Grade E. Required for Recovery Unit. Surgery undertaken.
recovery ward n.
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1774 J. Lind Ess. Health Seamen (new ed.) 334 On my going into the Recovery wards.
1866 Times 24 Aug. 7/5 My original instructions with regard to this hospital were that three wards should be arranged—viz., for men, for women, and a recovery ward.
1965 Nursing Times 5 Feb. p. lxii (advt.) Enrolled Nurses..For Recovery Ward to do full-time day duty.
1970 H. McLeave Question of Negligence i. 14 Cameron strolled around the recovery ward to inquire, as always, about the patients he had done that day.
2000 J. Mann Murder, Magic, & Med. (rev. ed.) iv. 146 Lister was sufficiently impressed by Pasteur's demonstration of the ubiquity of microorganisms to initiate the use of antisepsis in his surgical operations and in the recovery wards.
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recovery movement n. (a) Stock Market = rally n.1 4b; (also more generally) an improvement in economic conditions following a downturn; (b) originally and chiefly U.S. organizations seeking to help people recover from addiction, grief, etc., considered collectively; the philosophy or activities of such organizations.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > prices of stocks and shares > rise or tendency to rise
rally1826
results1829
bull run1882
buoyancy1883
firming-up1896
recovery movement1896
performance1926
upside1961
1896 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 29 Feb. 11/1 A brisk recovery movement occurred about 2.45 o'clock.
1950 D. Hinshaw H. Hoover iii. ii. 157 The recovery movement remained somewhat sporadic in character and moderate in proportions until the spring of 1933.
1986 Sunday Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) 23 Feb. 4 h/2 The recovery movement in the United States was growing..because of the inclusion of persons who were once addicted to cigarettes, [etc.].
1994 Guardian (Nexis) 10 Dec. 36 United Biscuits fell 12p to 314p, reversing a recovery movement.
2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 Jan. 43/2 Her characters..make sense of the world through a jumble of psychobabble..and what Wallace calls the ‘quilted sampler clichés’ of the recovery movement.
recovery party n. (a) a team of people sent to rescue or recover someone or something; = recovery team n. at Compounds 1a; (b) U.S. (with capital initial) a political party formed for the 1933 New York mayoral election (now historical).
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1883 Times 26 Jan. 3/3 Recovery parties have to proceed back for many miles.
1933 N.Y. Times 6 Oct. 3/2 The McKee candidates will probably run under the name of the ‘Recovery party’.
1966 Polit. Sci. Q. 81 458 Joseph V. McKee entered the race as the nominee of the Recovery party, sponsored by Edward J. Flynn.
1995 S. L. Stanton Rise & Fall Amer. Army I. i. 17 On October 24, a recovery party managed to pull in the bodies from this botched attack.
recovery position n. Medicine a first-aid position used to protect the airway in a person who is unconscious but breathing, in which the body is turned to the side, with the uppermost arm and leg bent, and the head resting on the lower cheek .
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1976 Winnipeg (Manitoba) Free Press 18 Sept. 27/1 An unconscious person should be turned on one side in what's called the recovery position, not slapped about the face.
1982 First Aid Man. (St. John Ambulance, St. Andrew Ambulance Assoc. & Brit. Red Cross) 19/1 When the casualty is breathing normally, place in the Recovery Position.
2005 I. McEwan Saturday ix. 230 With Theo still holding Baxter's head, Perowne rolled him into a recovery position, and looked at the other vital signs.
recovery programme n. a project or scheme intended to recover something or to bring about a recovery; spec. (a) originally U.S. a programme of treatment, counselling, etc., designed to help a person recover from a personal crisis such as addiction or grief; (b) Computing a computer program designed to retrieve lost data.
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1922 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 17 Oct. 6/1 After this ore has been mined and crushed, the added cost of a simple recovery program would be small in comparison with the added revenue.
1951 Daily News (Middlesboro, Kentucky) 17 Apr. 5/2 Family, friends and employer should be enlisted in any recovery program, and they should be acquainted with the underlying factors of alcoholism.
1962 S. R. Calabro Reliability Princ. & Pract. ix.116 Another type of program is called the automatic recovery program. This is customarily referred to as a ‘fix’ program because it provides for operation around failure.
1976 Times 23 June 19/1 A recovery programme for Italy by carrying out far-reaching economic, social and administrative reforms.
1999 Bangkok Post (Nexis) 7 July (heading) While most users tend not to password-protect their files, a good recovery program may one day prove useful.
2007 Express (Nexis) 24 May (Features section) 42 Both boys..tried on many occasions to get off heroin through detox units, hospitals and recovery programmes.
recovery room n. Medicine a room in a hospital set aside for patients recovering from the effects of a general anaesthetic.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital department > specific department
ambulatorium1834
emergency room1886
emergency department1889
recovery room1894
accident and emergency1898
outpatients1910
X-ray1916
casualty1927
abortorium1933
out1933
ER1955
A and E1966
emerg1978
1894 Manitoba (Winnipeg) Morning Free Press 10 May 6/2 Around this room are conveniently arranged the operating room,..recovery room for patients too ill to be removed at once to their wards, a room for small operations, a storeroom [etc.].
1964 G. L. Cohen What's Wrong with Hospitals? iii. 51 She wanted a post-operative recovery room, to avoid crises on a ward ill equipped to deal with them.
2001 A. Solomon Noonday Demon (2002) iii. 121 Within ten or fifteen minutes, the patient wakes up in the recovery room.
recovery stock n. Stock Market a stock which has declined in value but is thought to have the potential to regain its original level.
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1934 Times 22 Sept. 17/1 Meanwhile, the search for ‘recovery’ stocks will continue.
2007 Manly Daily (Austral.) (Nexis) 29 Aug. 35 At present brokers are recommending blue chip gold miner Newcrest as a recovery stock but I cannot buy it.
recovery time n. (a) the time required for a system to return to a former or usual condition following an action, typically the passage of an electric current; the time following a response to a stimulus before a system is ready to respond to a further stimulus; (b) Railways additional time incorporated in a train's schedule to enable it to make up any unforeseen delays.
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society > travel > rail travel > [noun] > operation of railways > schedule of individual train > time allowed in excess of normal schedule
recovery time1926
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > [noun] > time to return to specific condition
recovery time1926
1926 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 2 59 The cause..is an altered conductivity of the specific tissue lying below the point of origin of the impulse, caused by a lengthened or shortened rest and recovery time of that tissue.
1935 Proc. Physical Soc. 47 826 In order that the wire potential after extinction shall come back to zero in a short time, so that the next pulse falling within the recovery time R0C0 is large enough for amplification, it is necessary to make R0 small.
1961 Trains Illustrated Nov. 684/1 Time regaining soon began and by Doncaster, with the joint help of 4 min recovery time and a top speed of 85 m.p.h. on the level at Moss, 6 min had been picked up.
1977 Mod. Railways Dec. 481/3 Nothing more than 81 mile/h was sufficient for even time to Stowmarket and the ensuing sharp 14 min to Diss was just kept from where recovery time should have balanced the arrears.
2006 Nucl. Instruments & Methods Physics Res. A. 567 260 (title) Measurements of the recovery time of Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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