Meaning

3 senses

  1. (informal, uncountable)Rehabilitation, especially to treat the use of recreational drugs.

    go into rehab

    Reha

  2. (countable, informal)An institution for rehabilitation.

    Rehaklinik

    рехабrexab

  3. (countable, uncountable)A brief period of time spent away from the fire by a firefighter at a fire scene, for purposes of recuperation.

Examples

28 sentences

  1. Tom has to go to rehab.

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  2. I don't want to go to rehab.

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  3. Tom checked himself into a rehab center.

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  4. Tom faces three to six months of rehab.

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  5. Tom just got out of rehab.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
An institution for rehabilitation:
Deutsch
An act of rehabilitation:
An institution for rehabilitation:

Origin

Clipping of rehabilitation.

Clipping of rehabilitation.

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Forms

plural: rehabs
Singularrehab
Pluralrehabs

regular

Word family

2 related words
Derivedgut rehabrehab broker

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
regulationB1regulatorregulatoryC2rehabilitaterehabilitationrehabilitatorrehearsalB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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