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recuperation::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | convalescence, recovery |
| Type of | healing |
| Has types | lysis, rally |
| Derivation | recuperate |
Examples of recuperation
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Thus, knitting functions as a metaphor for recuperation, protection and healing.
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Recuperation in this context seems to have a similar meaning to commodification.
From the guardian.co.uk
Jordan admitted the boss had been on the line regularly during his recuperation.
From the express.co.uk
The surgery and recuperation were by no means the toughest task Joey would face.
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Skin-resurfacing techniques have also evolved to lessen the recuperation period.
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They also plan to use FC in long-term studies of recuperation of such patients.
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Too often injured players are rushed back without proper rest and recuperation.
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Your article made me realize that recovery takes longer than recuperation does.
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Her emotional recuperation began in earnest, she says, when she returned to work.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Convalescence: gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury
- (recuperate) recover: regain or make up for; "recuperate one's losses"
- Promoting recuperation; "recuperative powers"; "strongly recuperative remedies"; "restorative effects of exercise"
- Recuperation, in common usage, refers to a period of recovery. This has many uses, from medicine, in which sense it refers to the process by which medical patients recover from disease, injury, or mental illness, or finance, where it refers to the financial recovery of an individual or company.
- Recuperation, in the sociological sense (first proposed by Guy Debord and the Situationists), is the process by which "radical" ideas and images are commodified and incorporated within mainstream society, such as the movement for civil rights in the United States or the push for women's rights. ...
- Gradual restoration to health; convalescence (see recuperate); process by which radical or subversive ideas are co-opted by mainstream society (antonym: detournement)
- (recuperate) To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness; To co-opt subversive ideas for mainstream use
- (recuperate) Nietzsche writes that "More and more, work enlists all good conscience on its side; the desire for joy already calls itself a 'need to recuperate' and is beginning to be ashamed of itself. ...
- (recuperate) to become strong after illness
