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# recovery

«recovery» in Mova's school dictionary: **getting better after being ill, hurt or upset** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (recovery; a recovery, recoveries)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Recovery is getting better after being ill, hurt or upset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recovery/#m1)

2) Recovery is getting back something that was lost or stolen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recovery/#m2)

3) A recovery is when something, like a business or a team, gets back to a good state after a bad time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recovery/#m3)

4) (formal) Recovery can mean getting useful material back from waste, as in recycling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recovery/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recovery/#x1)
- We wish you a speedy recovery! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recovery/#x2)
- The team made a great recovery to win 3–2. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recovery/#x3)
- The police announced the recovery of the stolen paintings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recovery/#x4)
- In first aid, we learned the recovery position. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recovery/#x5)
- A recovery truck towed our broken car away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recovery/#x6)
- The town's recovery after the flood took months. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recovery/#x7)
- "Your royal highness must be on the high road to recovery from your illness," said he. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recovery/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/7/)
- [As the anaesthetic wears off, children may feel sleepy, sick or muddled, and recovery nurses give medicine for sickness or pain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/9/)
- [Quiet rest, like reading, drawing or sleeping, helps recovery, and screens late at night make sleep worse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/31-why-we-sleep-when-ill/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «recovery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recovery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.