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récupération — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • recovery noun A return to a normal or better condition after illness, damage, or difficulty.
  • recycling noun The process of collecting and reprocessing waste materials for reuse.
  • retrieval noun The act of getting something back, or the process of accessing stored data or memories.
  • salvage noun The rescue of a ship, its cargo, or other property from damage or loss, or the property recovered this way.

Senses

récupération is used for these senses in English:

  • recovery The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.
  • recycling The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.
  • retrieval The act of retrieving or something retrieved.
  • salvage (sometimes, attributive) Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.

recovery — full definition

  1. noun A return to a normal or better condition after illness, damage, or difficulty.
  2. noun The act of getting back something that was lost or stolen.

recycling — full definition

  1. noun The process of collecting and reprocessing waste materials for reuse.
  2. noun The materials being collected for reprocessing.

Related French words