rehabilitationn.
/ˌriː(h)əˌbɪlᵻˈteɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌri(h)əˌbɪliˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. † b. A writ or other official communication by which a person is granted rehabilitation of this type. Obsolete.
a. The restoration of a person to former privileges, status, or possessions by official decree, declaration, etc. (chiefly Scottish in early use); (occasionally) spec. formal restoration to communion with the Roman Catholic Church. Also: an instance of this.
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society > law > legal right > resumption or restoration of rights > [noun] > restoring to a legal status
rehabilitation1483
rehability1577
reponing1599
recapacitation1793
1483 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1875) XII. 32/1 And sal gif him lettrez..of..abbolucion of al criminale trespas..and reabilitacioune..and gif thame [sc. his accomplices] lettrez of remissioun and rehabilitacioune vndir the grete sele.
1538 in D. H. Fleming Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1921) II. 409/1 In contrar, violatioun, or breking of this our remitt and discharge, rehabilitatioun, restitutioun, and reintegratioun.
1573 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 174 His Hienes rehabilitatioun to all and sindry thair landis..as in the same remissioun and rehabilitatioun at mair lenth is contenit.
1630 E. Cary tr. J. D. Du Perron Reply to Answeare of King iv. xii. 432 A publicke declaration that the Churches makes to receaue them [sc. heretics] into her communion with the exercise of their charges, which serues them for a generall rehabilitation.
a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1677) vi. 348 A Letter of rehabilitation, whereby he might stand in judgment and plead against his Forfeiture.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Rehabilitation, an Act whereby the Pope or the King, by Dispensation, or Letters Patents, restores those that are grown low in the World.
1738 E. A. Burgis Ann. Church IV. 254 The monks..accuse Flavian of the highest injustice, and desire a penalty should be inflicted upon him for it, and they restored to the sacrements, &c. Their rehabilitation being accorded, Diocorus proposed [etc.].
1782 G. Stuart Hist. Scotl. II. vii. 313 They transmitted to him from his sovereign letters of rehabilitation, that established him in his rank of an honest man and a good citizen.
1824 H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. 1st Ser. I. 212 His remission and rehabilitation under the Great Seal of Scotland was not obtained till April 18th, 1497.
1852 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire (ed. 2) I. iii. 110 He pleaded the cause of his wife's brother.., and obtained his rehabilitation with that of other Marian exiles.
1864 R. C. Trench Parables (rev. ed.) xxiv. 392 His [sc. Christ's] rehabilitation in his baptismal privileges.
1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) i. §129 The status of his children is suspended by his right of retrospective rehabilitation, for on escape from captivity a man recovers all former rights.
1911 Catholic Encycl. XI. 606/2 Caelestius..took active steps toward his own rehabilitation.
1977 Georgia Law Rev. 12 145 The two fundamental policies of the Bankruptcy Act are to facilitate the rehabilitation of the bankrupt debtor and to provide a means for the equitable distribution of his assets among his creditors.
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society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > writ > other types of writ
utrumc1290
quo warrantoa1325
writ of right closea1325
writ of oyer and terminer1414
writ of right1414
quare impedit?a1424
prohibition?1435
praecipec1440
supplicavita1450
replevy1451
ouster-le-main1485
praecipe in capitec1523
value1527
inhibition1532
rehabilitation1533
melius inquirendum1549
ne exeat regnum1559
quo minus1592
letters (or writ) of supplementc1600
inhibition1603
fair pleading1607
ingressu1607
ne exeat regno1607
account1622
associationa1625
ship-writ1640
cessavit1641
ne exeat1644
devastavit1651
right close1651
writ of second deliverance1652
fair pleader1655
beaupleader1700
proclamation writ1713
writ of inquiry1809
writ of intendence and respondence1881
1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 21 §1 Relaxacions, writtes called Perinde valere, rehabilitacions, abolitions, and other infinite sortes of buls.
1553 Dundee Burgh Court Bks. II. f. 258, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Rehabilitation Becaus the said Robertis rehabilitacioun grantit & gevine to hym wes sene & red before the said inquest.
1613 in W. Fraser Mem. Earls of Haddington (1889) II. 75 For appending his hienes great seall to this present rehabilitatioune.
1687 P. Pett Obligation from Oath of Supremacy ii. 65 The bringing rehabilitations, and Perinde valere's from Rome to England, was like carrying Coals to New-Castle.
c. The reinstatement of a person in a previous position. rare.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > [noun] > reinstatement
restitutiona1387
repossession1533
restauration1548
reposition1559
reinstalment1602
renstall1630
restoration1660
reinstation1686
rehabilitation1831
reinstatement1880
society > law > legal right > resumption or restoration of rights > [noun] > restoring to a right or position
remitter1623
rehabilitation1831
1831 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 45 173 Having resisted the rehabilitation of the king after his attempted flight.
2000 A. Markantonatos Tragic Narr. v. 218 The pessimism..does not appear to be misplaced given the enormous suffering that Oedipus had to endure before the rehabilitation to his former honour.
d. The re-establishment of the reputation or merit of a person or thing; vindication of a person's character or legacy, esp. through a literary or historical reappraisal. Also: an instance of this.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > good repute > [noun] > restoration of reputation
rehabilitation1841
1841 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy: Gen. Views Hist. & Lit. II. v. ii. 354 They have returned to their primitive schemes for the regeneration of their national character;..for a forcible rehabilitation of their name in the opinion of their neighbours.
1855 G. H. Lewes Life & Wks. Goethe (1856) II. vi. v. 258 This pre-occupation with the Ideal, should result in the rehabilitation of the most perfect form of drama which that tendency has produced—I mean the French tragedy.
1879 J. C. Morison Gibbon 160 A rehabilitation of Theodora is not a theme calculated to provoke enthusiasm.
1893 D. J. Hill Genetic Philos. 8 There appears, then, to be an opportunity for the rehabilitation of philosophy.
1911 Amer. Hist. Rev. 16 256 The rehabilitation of Walpole's works as historical sources of first-rate importance.
1937 R. H. Sherard Bernard Shaw ii. 17 I think it is a pity Wilde did not live to see the complete rehabilitation of the author of Justine, and his ever-growing influence on the trend of British fiction.
1969 Listener 3 Apr. 466/3 The exile, poverty and forced labour..which she endured with her children until the time came for her grudging rehabilitation.
2008 K. E. Smith in T. Lahusen & P. H. Solomon What is Soviet Now? 168 An insistence on honoring the positive opens the door for..a creeping rehabilitation of Stalin.
2.
a. The restoration of a thing to a previous condition or status; (also) an instance of this.
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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun]
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reparellingc1410
reduction1447
rehaving1472
redintegration1501
restoration1510
reintegration1570
resource1596
reducement1604
reinstauration1610
retrievala1643
revindication1643
retrievement1657
retrieve1658
recoveringa1660
reviction1679
retrieving1718
revulsionc1760
rehabilitation1830
1830 Q. Rev. May 304 But the demand [for precious metals] may, to a certain extent, be diminished, by a rehabilitation of the condemned paper-circulation throughout Europe.
1848 Daily News 24 Oct. 4/1 Neither at Potsdam nor at Schönbraun did anyone dream of the rehabilitation of the empire.
1895 Rep. Commissioner 1893 (U.S. Comm. Fish & Fisheries) 387 There are many obstacles in the way of the rehabilitation of a river once depleted of its fish.
1911 E. P. Lyle Transformation of Krag vii. 254 He could begin next on..the rehabilitation of his fortune, on the endless multiplication of his fortune commensurate with the endlessness of the vein.
1965 H. J. Habakkuk in A. Goodwin New Cambr. Mod. Hist. VIII. ii. 47 The problems of fiscal and agricultural rehabilitation were closely linked.
2005 Sunday Times (Nexis) 27 Mar. 3 Callaghan ended as he began, with the economy in crisis. The real rehabilitation of the economy had to wait for Margaret Thatcher.
b. spec. The action of renovating or repairing a building or other structure; renovation, restoration.With quot. 1830 cf. quot. 1819 at rehabitation n.
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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] > renovation or renewal
renewinga1398
renovation?a1475
renovelty1477
renewc1500
renewance1569
renewment1570
renewal1603
repair1637
apocatastasis1678
rehabilitation1830
redevelopment1882
face-lifting1937
rehabbing1968
evergreening1972
1830 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor in Waverley Novels XIV. 280 To contribute something to the rehabilitation of sae auld ane house.
1887 C. L. Reade & C. Reade Charles Reade I. ii. 55 The rehabilitation of Ipsden House took exactly three months to complete.
1922 J. Bernhardt Alaskan Engin. Comm. ii. 42 Expenditures up to March 31, 1919, for rehabilitation of the Tanana Valley railroad.
1973 Detroit Legal News 30 Aug. 13/8 Owner or interested party who appeared verbally granted a period of two weeks in which to..secure a building permit, and to immediately begin rehabilitation.
2005 Sowetan (Johannesburg) 11 Feb. 29/3 The project entails the rehabilitation of the Alberton Dam Spillway through construction of a concrete and armoflex outlet structure.
c. Restoration to an original state of purity; (more generally) improvement of the moral state of a person, the soul, etc.
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society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > [noun] > improvement in moral condition > restoration to higher moral state
rehabilitation1836
1836 Dublin Rev. May 59 These [artistic] criticisms are in fact the fruits of a general system, in which the important fact of man's fall and future rehabilitation may be said to be the corner-stone.
1868 W. R. Greg Lit. & Social Judgm. (1869) 379 There are two opposite directions in which the improvement and rehabilitation of the Jamaica peasantry may be sought.
1873 W. Pater Stud. Hist. Renaissance ii. 29 That rehabilitation of human nature..which the Renaissance fulfils.
1910 M. J. Cawein Witch iii, in Shadow Garden 149 The soul that once inhabited there is gone To its far purification, rehabilitation.
1954 E. L. Stahl Friedrich Schiller's Drama i. 16 His true rehabilitation in the final scene consists in the recognition that his presumption was not merely a crime, but a sin.
1995 F. Ma'súmián Life after Death vi. 85 In Zoroastrianism these places [sc. heaven and hell] are temporary abodes until the final rehabilitation.
d. The political and economic revival of a country or area after war.
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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restoration of a person > [noun] > of a person, country, or industry after war
rehabilitation1865
rehab1935
1865 G. W. Nichols Story Great March xxxiv. 320 The South is crushed almost beyond hope of speedy resurrection... For us and for them a new era begins. A great work is to be accomplished in the rehabilitation of a wasted region.
1880 Memorial Addr. Zachariah Chandler 73 The great men whose names are linked with the history of the civil war and the rehabilitation of the nation are fast passing away.
1919 J. M. Keynes Econ. Consequences of Peace vi. 211 The Treaty includes no provisions for the economic rehabilitation of Europe.
1941 New Statesman 15 Feb. 161/1 A military victory would be followed by the economic and democratic rehabilitation of France and Germany.
2006 Guardian (Nexis) 16 Nov. 1 Point two of the plan stresses the importance of regional cooperation to the successful rehabilitation of Iraq.
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a. Improvement of the character, skills, and behaviour of an offender through training, counselling, education, etc., in order to aid reintegration into society.
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1870 25th Ann. Rep. Prison Assoc. N.Y. 1869 194 The reformation and rehabilitation of criminals—not vindictive suffering—should be made the supreme aim in prison management.
1895 Sessional Papers Province Ont. XXVII. No. 11. 102 The Reformatory..is fairly equipped for the purpose for which it was established, viz., the reclamation and rehabilitation of juvenile offenders.
1910 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 15 454 The purpose of rehabilitation of offenders rather than their restraint by intimidation.
1974 Science 2 Aug. 423/2 People who are down on jails believe that the institutional setting is too dehumanizing for any meaningful rehabilitation to take place.
1997 Economist 1 Feb. 27/3 The effect of the proposed new regime will be for prisoners of all kinds to spend much longer behind bars. Rehabilitation seems to have gone out of the window.
b. Restoration of a person to health or normal activity after injury, illness, disablement, or addiction by means of medical or surgical treatment, physical and occupational therapy, psychological counselling, etc.
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the world > health and disease > healing > [noun] > restoration to health > rehabilitation
rehabilitation1888
reablement1945
rehab1955
1888 Lancet 12 May 937/1 The little sufferers from parental ignorance or neglect are admitted as patients, and their physical rehabilitation attempted under conditions most favourable to success.
1917 Psychol. Bull. 14 229 (title) Report of a conference on the reeducation and rehabilitation of maimed and crippled soldiers.
1941 Ann. Reg. 1940 150 The principal questions for expert study being the..rehabilitation of men disabled in the war.
1974 M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. xii. 232 Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), an informal fellowship of former alcoholics whose goal is the rehabilitation of alcoholics.
1992 H. N. Schwarzkopf It doesn't take Hero xi. 179 The doctors presented me with an ultimatum: either undergo major spinal surgery and lengthy rehabilitation, or risk eventual paralysis.
2006 Daily Tel. 19 Jan. 19/1 In exchange for not being prosecuted, offenders agree to rehabilitation or reparation—attending a drug clinic, for example, or cleaning graffiti off a building.
c. The reintroduction of a serviceman or servicewoman into civilian life through the provision of training, employment, land, etc.
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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restoration of a person > [noun] > to normal life by training
rehabilitation1918
rehab1961
1918 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 80 150 Redistribution of millions of men and women to immediate profitable employment on the termination of the war... Any adequate program of rehabilitation must be developed by the government.
1946 R.A.F. Jrnl. May 170 The career-finding agency..was inaugurated as one of the primary aids for rehabilitation of members.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. May 458/2 Land for the rehabilitation of returned servicemen has been..plentiful in Canada.
1995 L. Evans in D. K. Rhoades et al. Legacy of Vietnam War Veterans & their Families Foreword p. ix Federal veterans' benefits programs, ranging from health care services to service-connected compensation and from vocational rehabilitation to education assistance.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
rehabilitation area n.
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1934 Morning News (Florence, S. Carolina) 24 Nov. ii. 1/8 A model rural rehabilitation area is being laid out at Helena..in connection with that state's effort to move many farmers to more fertile lands.
2004 C. Shaojun et al. in J. Plummer & J. G. Taylor Community Participation in China viii. 213 The provincial resettlement office pays compensation to the local resettlement office in the rehabilitation area.
rehabilitation camp n.
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1918 La Crosse (Wisconsin) Tribune & Leader-Press 30 Aug. 8/3 Electricity for use at the new rehabilitation camp for disabled soldiers and sailors of the northwest at the fort.
1967 W. Soyinka Kongi's Harvest 31 All the prostitutes were sent off to a rehabilitation camp.
1989 Demography 26 519 We also expect households that are closer to rehabilitation camps..to be less affected by drought and famine.
rehabilitation centre n.
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1918 Hahnemannian Monthly Oct. 632 Gourdon is chief of a rehabilitation center, and reports his experience with 5,014 maimed soldiers with grave and incurable lesions.
1944 Ourselves in Wartime iii. 41 The Ministry of Labour..laid its plans for the rehabilitation of injured citizens. Men and women were trained at one of the Ministry of Labour's rehabilitation centres.
1997 Calif. Lawyer July 94/2 (advt.) CEO with 25 years experience running..rehabilitation centers, retirement centers, and clinics.
rehabilitation counselling n.
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1939 Amer. Ann. Deaf Sept. 330 What more reasonable than to use the Rehabilitation counseling service based as it is upon broad experiences with the deaf?
2006 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 23 July b1 After living 10 months at Phoenix House Academy—a residential rehabilitation-counseling center for teens—he shook subordination.
rehabilitation course n.
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1919 Atlanta Constit. 31 July 9/7 Taking the rehabilitation course at the Georgia State College of Agriculture is an ex-soldier who is officially catalogued in the war department as dead.
2005 R. Chambers et al. Demonstrating your Competence 4 v. 87 Approximately one-third of hospitals in the UK provide rehabilitation courses for people with chronic lung disease.
rehabilitation facility n.
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1919 Acts 143rd Legislature State of New Jersey lxxiv. 140 Any person who chooses to take advantage of these rehabilitation facilities shall be registered with the commission.
1955 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 70 152/2 Grants to construct and equip rehabilitation facilities are authorized.
1978 A. S. Berger City v. 126 A community..may oppose the conversion of a hotel or apartment building into a mental health shelter or a penal rehabilitation facility.
1998 Community Care 7 May 66/3 (advt.) A range of rehabilitation facilities include a hydrotherapy pool and a self-contained transitional flat.
rehabilitation grant n.
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1918 J. B. Deacon Disasters v. 141 A follow-up study of the rehabilitation grants made after the San Francisco fire.
1956 T. H. Raddall Wings of Night 30 After I got my discharge from the army I took a forestry course at U.N.B., on my rehabilitation grant.
2003 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 14 Aug. b9 A rehabilitation grant got him on to the property, and he proved to be a thrifty and progressive dairyman.
rehabilitation hospital n.
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1917 Amer. Med. Oct. 673/2 Provisions can be made whereby convalescent and rehabilitation hospitals can be maintained.
2002 C. Gant & G. Lewis End your Addiction Now xiii. 246 She hadn't touched a drink in the two weeks since she'd left the rehabilitation hospital.
rehabilitation officer n.
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1919 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 19 Oct. 11/6 In all cases the wife has become such almost immediately after the applicant for training has received the indorsement of the chief rehabilitation officer.
1998 Community Care 5 Feb. 56/1 (advt.) We are seeking two Rehabilitation Officers for Visual Impairment (ROVI) to complete the Team's establishment.
rehabilitation plan n.
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1880 N.Y. Times 24 Jan. 4/3 Others should be deemed unjust and churlish in opposing the ultra Porter rehabilitation plan.
1955 Marriage & Family Living 17 153/2 It is doubtful whether neighborhoods can really be substantially improved without help from a government agency having power to carry out rehabilitation plans.
2007 M. Zernova Restorative Justice iii. 79 The rehabilitation plan was created while the offender was not even present.
rehabilitation programme n.
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1907 Wall St. Jrnl. 30 July 3/1 The plan will be finally approved by Sept. 15, so that the new ordinance may be formally accepted and the rehabilitation program carried out.
1950 N.Y. Times 20 Apr. 1/2 President Truman approved..a bill authorizing an economic rehabilitation programme for the Navajo and Hopi Indian tribes.
1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague (new ed.) xi. 328 Gaining access to drug users, especially those who weren't in methadone or rehabilitation programs.., would be extremely difficult.
rehabilitation project n.
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1909 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 23 Dec. 9/6 It seems likely that the rehabilitation project will carry and the receivership be dismissed.
2004 M. E. Miller Forgotten Tribes iii. 84 The committee envisioned a rehabilitation project that would re-create a ‘self-sustaining agricultural village’ that would ultimately help assimilate the group.
rehabilitation service n.
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1913 Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Texas) 16 May 1/4 Assistance rendered by the federal government, the state troops and the rehabilitation service of the American Red Cross Society.
2007 L. F. Fallon & C. R. McConnell Human Resource Managem. in Health Care xxii. 396 The occupational medicine clinic had begun as a rehabilitation service.
rehabilitation studies n.
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1973 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Mar. 687/3 (heading) Chair of rehabilitation studies.
2003 Social Sci. & Med. 56 531 The paper demonstrates the usefulness of qualitative research methods in rehabilitation studies.
C2.
rehabilitation clinic n. a clinic for rehabilitation; (now) esp. a specialized residential clinic for the intensive treatment of an addict.
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1920 Amer. Labor Legislation Rev. 10 173 The two-reel educational film..shows the co-ordination between the workmen's compensation bureau and the rehabilitation clinic.
1969 H. J. Levin & H. Diner in Bull. Bronx City Dentistry Soc. Nov. 7 (title) Dentistry in children's evaluation and rehabilitation clinic.
1992 New Republic 18 May 48/2 He makes an appearance at the end after spending most of the novel in a rehabilitation clinic in New Orleans.
2002 N. Tosches In Hand of Dante 104 I was told in rehabilitation clinics that I didn't have another detox in me.
rehabilitation medicine n. a branch of medicine dealing with rehabilitation to health or normal activity.
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the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [noun] > rehabilitation medicine
rehabilitation medicine1950
1950 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. 98 798 The defendant should investigate fully all the possibilities which modern rehabilitation medicine has to offer.
1979 Internat. Rehabilit. Med. 1 44/1 The ultimate goal is to establish rehabilitation medicine alongside diagnosis and treatments, as one of the three activities of all practising doctors.
2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 12 Aug. 33/2 A neuropsychologist and professor of rehabilitation medicine.
rehabilitation order n. any of various types of court order intended to effect or encourage the rehabilitation of a business, individual, etc.; (now) esp. (British) = community rehabilitation order n. at community n. Compounds 2.
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1917 Opinions & Orders (Public Utilities Comm. State Illinois) 4 278 The respondent neglecting to remedy the situation after notice, was cited to show cause why a rehabilitation order should not be entered.
1933 N.Y. Times 6 June (Financial section) 35/3 The courts may soon lift the rehabilitation order..and permit the company to resume normal business.
1978 Times 26 Apr. 4/6 The council sought confirmation of a rehabilitation order on 17 of the properties.
2003 Derby Evening Telegraph (Nexis) 7 Nov. 5 He admitted breaching his rehabilitation order and asked for eight offences..to be taken into consideration.
rehabilitation unit n. a group, department, or institution devoted to (esp. medical) rehabilitation.
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1917 Barnard Bull. (N.Y.) 20 Dec. 6/2 The Wellesley rehabilitation unit, similar to the one sent by Smith, is to be ready for service in the spring.
1948 J. R. Ellingston Protecting our Children from Criminal Careers ix. 110 The records..will reveal the strength and the weakness of the camp as a rehabilitation unit.
1969 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 69 562/2 Some are employed in comprehensive rehabilitation centers or in rehabilitation units within general hospitals.
2007 Derby Evening Telegraph (Nexis) 11 Dec. 18 Today he hands over the money to the hospital's cardiac rehabilitation unit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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