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Reclamation   /rˌɛkləmˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Reclamation

noun
1.
The conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation.  Synonyms: rehabilitation, renewal.
2.
Rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course.  Synonym: reformation.
3.
The recovery of useful substances from waste products.





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"Reclamation" Quotes from Famous Books



... sheriff," replied Jones shortly, and immediately resumed his interrupted discourse on books, book-agents and the reclamation of Boston. Ten minutes elapsed before the landlord's garrulity was checked by the sound of an automobile coming to a stop in front of the house. Barnes turned expectantly toward the door. Almost immediately the car started up again, with a ...
— Green Fancy • George Barr McCutcheon
... these days of reclamation and reconstruction, it is high time to pay more attention to the Farm by the Side of ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Sixth Annual Meeting. Rochester, New York, September 1 and 2, 1915 • Various
... noticeable in the indigenous grasses and herbage of the two regions. Mr. George Ranken, in one of his essays on Australian subjects ["The Squatting System of Australia," by "Capricornus."] draws an excellent picture of the reclamation and transformation of ...
— The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 • Ernest Favenc
... of land can be increased by several methods. Irrigation, reclamation, and dry farming increase the available supply of farm land. The fertility of land may be retained and increased by manuring, rotation of crops, and careful husbandry. Improved agricultural machinery will also enable land to be used in larger quantities and in more productive ...
— Problems in American Democracy • Thames Ross Williamson
... more and more important in many of the great land operations. Even the government reclamation enterprises could not open lands to the settler on anything like the old homestead basis. The water right cost money—sometimes twenty-five or thirty dollars an acre; in some of the private reclamation enterprises, fifty dollars ...
— The Passing of the Frontier - A Chronicle of the Old West, Volume 26 in The Chronicles - Of America Series • Emerson Hough


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