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recuperation

nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,257 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: recuperations

Recuperation is the regaining of health and strength. A period of recuperation, rest and recuperation, slow recuperation.

Rest and recuperation is the fixed military phrase, shortened to R and R, for leave granted to recover. It names the process rather than the moment of getting better.

Definitions of recuperation

  1. 1nounrecuperationThe regaining of health and strength.C2

    “After the operation, he spent a month of recuperation at his parents' house by the sea.”

recuperation is a recovering.

Where it comes from

Latin recuperatio comes from recuperare, to get back; recover is a doublet.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *keh₂p-

  2. Latin

    recuperātiō

  3. English, today

    recuperation

Borrowed from Latin recuperātiō. by surface analysis, recuperate + -ion.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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recuperation in the wild

  • Iaso or Ieso was the Greek goddess of recuperation from illness.

    Iaso

  • R&R, R & R, or R and R usually refers to R&R (military), a military abbreviation for "rest and recuperation" or "rest and relaxation".

    R&R

  • The concept of recuperation was formulated by members of the Situationist International, its first published instance in 1960.

    Recuperation (politics)

  • The sixty-year-old Handel composed the setting in 1745 for the pleasure of other guests during his summer recuperation at the country seat of the Earl of Gainsborough.

    Comus (Handel)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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