Meaning

4 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

  2. (countable, uncountable)Material recovered from something that has already been used.

    Is it okay to smoke cannabis reclaim?

  3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)The calling back of a hawk.

  4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.

Examples

29 sentences

  1. This airport was built on reclaimed land.

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  2. This table is made from reclaimed wood.

    deDieser Tisch besteht aus wiederverwertetem Holz. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  3. Nature has begun to reclaim these spaces.

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  4. This city was built on reclaimed land.

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  5. This building was built on reclaimed land.

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Origin

From Middle English reclaymen, recleymen, reclamen, from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun recla

From Middle English reclaymen, recleymen, reclamen, from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun reclaim and Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin reclāmō, reclāmāre. Equivalent to re- + claim.

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Forms

plural: reclaims
Singularreclaim
Pluralreclaims

regular

Word family

1 related words
Derivedbaggage reclaim

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
recklesslyrecklessnessreckonB2reclassifyreclinerecliner
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