reclaim
verb (used with object)
to bring (uncultivated areas or wasteland) into a condition for cultivation or other use.
reclaimable
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a word derived from
reclaim.
Example Sentences
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Denver Parks and Recreation aims to identify reclaimable parcels and purchase them.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2015
For the supply of reclaimable rubber would eventually disappear if there were no fresh rubber imports.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nothing reclaimable or recyclable is left for the garbage dump.
From Time Magazine Archive
Russia More than one fourth of the whole of Russia is so dry as to be reclaimable only by dry-farming.
From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe
Towards Charlemont there is much reclaimable bog resting on a limestone substratum.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
