recovery
part of speech
noun (recovery; a recovery, recoveries)
meaning for a pupil
1) Recovery is getting better after being ill, hurt or upset. tree →
2) Recovery is getting back something that was lost or stolen. tree →
3) A recovery is when something, like a business or a team, gets back to a good state after a bad time. tree →
4) (formal) Recovery can mean getting useful material back from waste, as in recycling. tree →
sense in the lessons
In health, a patient makes «a full recovery». In sport, a team makes a recovery from 2–0 down. In science and the environment, «resource recovery» is getting materials back from rubbish. Breakdown trucks are «recovery vehicles». Phrases: make a recovery, full recovery, speedy recovery, on the road to recovery, recovery position.
examples
- Grandad made a full recovery after his operation. tree →
- We wish you a speedy recovery! tree →
- The team made a great recovery to win 3–2. tree →
- The police announced the recovery of the stolen paintings. tree →
- In first aid, we learned the recovery position. tree →
- A recovery truck towed our broken car away. tree →
- The town's recovery after the flood took months. tree →
- "Your royal highness must be on the high road to recovery from your illness," said he. tree →
note
Mostly uncountable; plural «recoveries». The verb is «recover». The «recovery position» is a first-aid way to lay an unconscious person on their side so they can breathe — an important safety fact.
In the corpora
- "In recovery" means recovering from an addiction, such as to alcohol or drugs, and staying off it.
- As the anaesthetic wears off, children may feel sleepy, sick or muddled, and recovery nurses give medicine for sickness or pain.
- Quiet rest, like reading, drawing or sleeping, helps recovery, and screens late at night make sleep worse.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «recovery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.