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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reclaim
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
baggage reclaim (also baggage claim American English) (= the place where you collect your baggage after a flight)
▪ We waited for almost an hour in baggage reclaim.
baggage reclaim
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
land
▪ Joined by a contingent of Sword Masters, his army marched on into southern Avelorn to reclaim the Everqueen's land.
▪ Man builds great temples, the jungle reclaims the land.
▪ And now they had the immense task of reclaiming all this land and rebuilding all their homes.
▪ The amount of reclaimed land is increasing every year, and trees are growing fast.
▪ A second airport terminal was opened in 1990 and there are plans to reclaim more land for a third and a fourth.
site
▪ In each case £20 million to £30 million of government money was spent reclaiming a site for flowers and later development.
▪ More than £1m in grants has been spent on reclaiming the site of the former Brom borough power station.
▪ More than £1m of derelict land grant has been spent on reclaiming the site of the former Bromborough power station.
▪ Based in Toronto and Pennsylvania, it will focus on converting munitions into reusable commercial material and reclaim explosive waste sites.
tax
▪ The supply would not be on a tax invoice, so the buyer would not be able to reclaim the tax paid.
▪ We can then reclaim the income tax you - or your spouse - have paid already.
▪ The Inland Revenue permits us to reclaim tax and pay dividends gross.
▪ Anyone in this situation can reclaim the tax from their tax office after the end of the tax year in April.
▪ Interest is paid net of basic rate tax and non-taxpayers and investors with unused allowances must reclaim tax.
▪ The funds can reclaim tax and pay income gross, saving charities the trouble of reclaiming the tax.
■ VERB
build
▪ Empty building sites have been reclaimed and replanted.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A British woman is waiting to hear how she can reclaim a family estate inside the former Soviet Union.
▪ China reclaimed Hong Kong from Britain in 1997.
▪ The golf course will use reclaimed wastewater to water the grass.
▪ The organization is trying to reclaim desert land for farming.
▪ You can reclaim tax if you find you have paid too much.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A message arrived from a local farmer who had found and secured it until it could be reclaimed.
▪ An alternative could be high coupon gilts as the tax can be reclaimed.
▪ In each case £20 million to £30 million of government money was spent reclaiming a site for flowers and later development.
▪ Nature can reclaim an entire farm in 14 years and leave nothing behind but the masonry.
▪ The Inland Revenue permits us to reclaim tax and pay dividends gross.
▪ The radio was reclaimed the next morning.
▪ What they learn in school about writing helps to preserve and reclaim that heritage.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reclaim

Reclaim \Re*claim"\, n. The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery. [Obs.]

Reclaim

Reclaim \Re*claim"\ (r[=e]*kl[=a]m"), v. t. To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.

A tract of land [Holland] snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy.
--W. Coxe.

Reclaim

Reclaim \Re*claim"\ (r[-e]*kl[=a]m"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reclaimed (r[-e]*kl[=a]md"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reclaiming.] [F. r['e]clamer, L. reclamare, reclamatum, to cry out against; pref. re- re- + clamare to call or cry aloud. See Claim.]

  1. To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
    --Chaucer.

  2. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.

    The headstrong horses hurried Octavius . . . along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.
    --Dryden.

  3. To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under discipline; -- said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also of other animals. ``An eagle well reclaimed.''
    --Dryden.

  4. Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc.

  5. To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.

    It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind.
    --Rogers.

  6. To correct; to reform; -- said of things. [Obs.]

    Your error, in time reclaimed, will be venial.
    --Sir E. Hoby.

  7. To exclaim against; to gainsay. [Obs.]
    --Fuller.

    Syn: To reform; recover; restore; amend; correct.

Reclaim

Reclaim \Re*claim"\ (r[-e]*kl[=a]m"), v. i.

  1. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.

    Scripture reclaims, and the whole Catholic church reclaims, and Christian ears would not hear it.
    --Waterland.

    At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton.
    --Bain.

  2. To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.

    They, hardened more by what might most reclaim, Grieving to see his glory, . . . took envy.
    --Milton.

  3. To draw back; to give way. [R. & Obs.]
    --Spenser.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reclaim

early 14c., "call back a hawk to the glove," from Old French reclamer "to call upon, invoke; claim; seduce; to call back a hawk" (12c.) and directly from Latin reclamare "cry out against, contradict, protest, appeal," from re- "opposite, against" (see re-) + clamare "cry out" (see claim (v.)).\n

\n"Call back a hawk," hence "to make tame" (mid-15c.), "subdue, reduce to obedience, make amenable to control" (late 14c.). In many Middle English uses with no sense of return or reciprocation. Meaning "revoke" (a grant, gift, etc.) is from late 15c. That of "recall (someone) from an erring course to a proper state" is mid-15c. Sense of "get back by effort" might reflect influence of claim. Meaning "bring waste land into useful condition fit for cultivation" first attested 1764, probably on notion of "reduce to obedience." Related: Reclaimed; reclaiming.

Wiktionary
reclaim

n. 1 (context obsolete falconry English) The calling back of a hawk. 2 (context obsolete English) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back. 3 An effort to take something back, to reclaim something. vb. 1 (senseid en to return land to a suitable condition)(context transitive English) To return land to a suitable condition for use. 2 (context transitive English) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle. 3 (context transitive English) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform. 4 (context transitive English) To claim something back; to repossess. 5 (context transitive English) To tame or domesticate a wild animal. 6 To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting. 7 To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions. 8 (context obsolete rare English) To draw back; to give way.

WordNet
reclaim
  1. v. claim back [syn: repossess]

  2. of materials from waste products [syn: recover]

  3. bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one; "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct" [syn: reform, regenerate, rectify]

  4. make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state; "The people reclaimed the marshes"

  5. overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons" [syn: domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, tame]

Wikipedia
Reclaim

Reclaim, reclaiming or reclamation means "to get something back". It may refer to :

  • Reclaimed word, or reappropriation, a word whose connotations have changed from pejorative to acceptable
  • Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM), an emissions trading program in California
  • Reclaiming (Neopaganism), a Pagan earth-based spirituality movement
  • Land reclamation
  • Mine reclamation
  • River reclamation
  • Water reclamation

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Reclaim (album)

'Reclaim' is Keep of Kalessin's first EP. It was released on December 6, 2003 in the United States and in Europe on January 15, 2004 as a Mini CD. It was recorded in July, 2003 in Silverstone Studios and Schweinhund Studios. The EP was produced by Schwein and Obsidian C.. The EP was mixed by Schwein and mastered by Masterhuset. The cover design was done by MultiMono, by Asgeir Mickelson

Frost ( Satyricon) heard the new Keep of Kalessin material and immediately said yes when Obsidian C. asked him to do the drumming on this new EP. Touring with Satyricon also made it possible for Obsidian C. to recruit the legendary Attila Csihar for the vocals on Reclaim who is well known for the vocals on Mayhem´s De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. The three piece line-up recorded the EP which put the band into the Elite black metal scene of Norway, but due to the distance between Frost, Attila and Obsidian C., this line-up was short-lived.

Attila did all the vocals on this release. However, Obsidian C. performed additional vocals on Come Damnation and Reclaim. Obsidian C. is also responsible for writing the music, except for IX which was written by Obsidian C. and S. Groenbech. Traveler was written, but also performed by S. Groenbech alone. The lyrics were written by Torstein Parelius, courtesy of Chton and Manes. The lyrics of Reclaim were written by Obsidian C. and he was also responsible for the lyrical arrangements, together with Attila.

Reclaim (film)

Reclaim is a 2014 drama- thriller film that was directed by Alan White. The film was released on video on demand and also received a simultaneous limited theatrical release in the United States on September 19, 2014. It stars Ryan Phillippe and Rachelle Lefevre as an American couple who travel to Puerto Rico to adopt an orphan (Briana Roy) but become entangled in a deadly scam.

Usage examples of "reclaim".

In 1974, instead of reclaiming his roots by visiting Bursa, my father renounced them.

Becket might reclaim his see and lead his exiles home, if, when, and after the bishops of England were freed from excommunication and his lands from the menaces of interdict.

He tilled small plots of soil, reclaimed from bedrock and tenacious scrub, for the high hills of the Djenn Marre were generally inhospitable to farming.

Ireland, gone even the old cavalry musketoon, buried now in the ruins of an abandoned churchyard along with the tiny hope that someday he might return to reclaim it.

One day, when Phos the lord of the great and good mind judges us worthy, we shall reclaim them.

Major Yuli Batenin, formerly with KGB, come to America to capture Captain Rair Brashnikov, also formerly with KGB, and reclaim vibration suit for motherland before nuclear event occurs and we all die.

Reclaimed rubber can be redispersed when mixed with hydrophilic colloids: glue, soap, even clay.

From time to time he spotted townspeople skulking on the outskirts, returned to reclaim personal possessions or perhaps to gauge when they might expect to reinhabit their homes.

Akkadians, ever since Ahzimandias, the Spear of Shamash, led his people out of the deserts of the Umaiyyat to reclaim the rights of the long-fallen House of Ur.

Then he might escape while Arioch was still away, get back to Shool and reclaim Rhaliaa.

I would give them any legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives which should not in its stringency be more likely to carry a free man into slavery than our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one.

I would give them any legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives, which should not, in its stringency, be more likely to carry a free man into slavery than Our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one.

From the panting switcher came a singular laugh that reached the ears of the two men who were reclaiming the rare metal discovered by Absalom Pettigrew.

Now, the holding of land upon the hills gave to the Syns, as it did to other Marshmen in like case, a sense of security, for the reclaimed pasturage of Romney Marsh owed its existence to the Dymchurch Wall, which held the sea in check.

They have robbed us of our property, they have murdered our citizens while endeavoring to reclaim that property by lawful means, they have set at naught the decrees of the Supreme Court, they have invaded our States and killed our citizens, they have declared their unalterable determination to exclude us altogether from the Territories, they have nullified the laws of Congress, and finally they have capped the mighty pyramid of unfraternal enormities by electing Abraham Lincoln to the Chief Magistracy, on a platform and by a system which indicated nothing but the subjugation of the South and the complete ruin of her social, political and industrial institutions.