reclaimverb [ T ]
uk/rɪˈkleɪm/us/rɪˈkleɪm/to take back something that was yours:
You'll be able to reclaim the tax on all equipment that you buy.
I reclaimed my suitcase from the lost luggage office.
to make land, such as desert or areas covered by water, suitable for farming or building
to treat waste materials in order to get useful materials, such as glass or paper, that can be used again
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Having and owning - general words
- -owned
- attach to sb/sth
- be endowed with sth idiom
- bear
- bearer
- belong
- belong to sb
- call
- claim
- endow
- hold
- interest
- mistress
- not/never want for anything idiom
- owner
- ownership
- proprietress
- revert to sb
- stake somewhere/sth out
- want
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Preserving and saving
reclaimnoun [ U ]
the act of collecting your bags after they have been taken off a plane at the end of a flight, or the area of an airport where you do this:
We spent an hour in baggage/luggage reclaim waiting for our suitcases.
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Air travel: travelling by aircraft
- aboard
- air rage
- blast off
- coach class
- crash-land
- cruise
- economy-class syndrome
- flown
- flying
- flypast
- fogbound
- ground
- holding pattern
- land
- landfall
- navigation
- pilot
- red-eye
- scramble
- taxi
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