recovery arean.
/rᵻˈkʌv(ə)rɪ ˌɛːrɪə/, U.S. /rəˈkəv(ə)ri ˌɛriə/, /riˈkəv(ə)ri ˌɛriə/ 1. U.S. Military and Astronautics. A designated area on the ground or at sea within which recovery of a person, craft, etc., is to be effected, esp. following a flight.
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1943 K. Wheeler Pacific is my Beat viii. 77 The recovery area..would be so and so. Get this pilots, and get it right. Get it right or this will be the last sunrise you'll ever see.
1958 Los Angeles Times 23 July i. 22/5 Unfortunately a fleet of ships stationed around the recovery area failed to locate the cone before it sank to the bottom of the sea.
1962 Science 29 June 1095/1 I observed..the wake of a ship as I came over recovery area G at the beginning of the third orbit.
1971 Guardian 1 July 1/5 The Soyuz made a..soft landing in the expected recovery area.
1998 S. Sontag et al. Blind Man's Bluff iii. 54 The DSSV..was to travel to any recovery area mounted on the top of a submarine.
2. Medicine. An area to which patients are brought to recover immediately after an operation; spec. = recovery room n. at recovery n. Compounds 2.
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1955 P. H. Kirk & E. D. Sternberg Doctors' Offices & Clinics vii. 203 The complete dental unit has two operatories, a lab, a dark room, and a recovery area.
1961 Lancet 4 Feb. 273/2 A bedpan washer..prevented the construction of an observation window overlooking the recovery area.
1977 Times 25 Aug. 2/6 After transfer to the recovery area he was left in the care of a pupil nurse.
2007 Jrnl. Cataract & Refractive Surg. 33 377/2 The patient was taken to the recovery area and remained in a face-up position for 60 minutes.
3. Economics. An area of a country in which efforts are concentrated on economic recovery.
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1948 Christian Sci. Monitor 12 Aug. 9/1 It is essential..to establish a separate economic recovery area where recovery funds could be used without the risk of their merely being poured into Soviet reparations.]
1976 Scotsman 27 Dec. 2/7 An attempt to have South Ayrshire designated as a recovery area.
1987 D. M. Allan in D. Donnison & A. Middleton Regenerating Inner City ii. xi. 213 The reinstatement of the Parkhead Line..would have suited workers in the Cambuslang Recovery Area.
4. Ecology (chiefly U.S.). A region designated to enable an endangered or depleted species to recover in numbers.
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1974 Oikos 25 9 The stream no longer receiving reactor discharges represents a post-thermal recovery area that provides insight into the rate and pattern of successional recovery in a stressed swamp system.]
1985 N.Y. Times 18 Feb. a10/3 Those two areas were selected as wolf recovery areas by the Fish and Wildlife Service.
1999 High Country News 22 Nov. 5/4 Fossil Creek offers a potential recovery area for the endangered razorback sucker and Gila topminnow.
2004 C. Houser et al. in Defending Wild Washington iii. xiv. 332 The Washington Selkirks are part of the Selkirk/Cabinet-Yaak Grizzly Bear Recovery Area.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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