See Also: FORMER RECOVERY(law)
recovery(medicine)
Recovery(money)
Recovery(finance)
recovery(dictionary)
recovery(dictionary)
Recovery room(health)
COMMON RECOVERY(law)
Bad Debt Recovery(money)
recovery program(dictionary)

recovery (iou)



recovery noun. LME.
[Anglo-Norman recoverie, Old French reco(u)vree, from recovrer: see RECOVER verb1, -ERY.]
I. Possibility or means of recovering or being restored to a former, usual, or correct state. LME-L17.
The action or an act of returning to a former, usual, or correct position. E16.
W. Cowper Our recovery from our fall.
b. Golf. A stroke bringing the ball out of a bunker etc. M20.
Restoration or return to a former, usual, or correct state or condition, as health, prosperity, stability, etc.; an instance of this. L16.
J. F. Hendry Rodin had influenza and made..a slow recovery. A. Bullock Creating the best possible conditions..for economic recovery in the world. R. Berthoud The 1920s had been..a time of recovery from the First World War.
b. The cure of an illness, wound, etc. E17-M18.
II.
Law. The fact or process of gaining or regaining possession of or a right to property, compensation, etc.; spec. (now Hist.) (also common recovery) a process, based on a legal fiction, by which an entailed estate may be transferred from one party to another. L15.
The process, fact, or possibility of regaining possession, use, or control of something, esp. a thing or things lost or taken away; the recovering of a debt, loss, former condition, etc. M16.
N. Wanley He retired for recovery of his health. Gibbon The recovery of Italy and Africa by the arms of Justinian.
b. A thing or (now usu.) an amount recovered, freq. contrasted with an initial loss etc. L18.
c. The extraction or retrieval of a usable substance from raw material or a reusable substance from industrial waste etc. L19.
d. The collection or gathering up of something, esp. a thing or things temporarily out of one's control or possession; an instance of this. E20.
L. Hellman The dogs made such fine recoveries that we came back with fourteen ducks. Times of India The encounter resulted in the..recovery of some arms.
The act or opportunity of reaching or arriving at somewhere or something. M16-M17.
Phrases: common recovery: see sense 4 above. in the recovery, on the recovery recovering, convalescent.
Comb.: recovery position a position used in first aid to prevent choking in unconscious patients, in which the body lies facing downwards and slightly to the side, supported by the bent limbs; recovery room: in a hospital etc., where a patient can recover after an operation or treatment; recovery time (a) the time required for a material or piece of equipment to return to a former or the usual condition following an action, as the passage of a current through electrical equipment; (b) Railways time allowed in a schedule excess to the usual necessary journey time; recovery ward: in a hospital, where a patient can recover after an operation.