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
Nothing reclaimable or recyclable is left for the garbage dump.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the supply of reclaimable rubber would eventually disappear if there were no fresh rubber imports.
From Time Magazine Archive
I only won the money from you in play, and gambling debts are not legally reclaimable.
From Jena or Sedan? by Franz Beyerlein
But after all, though his future seemed clear, and he appeared the type of a strange and hardly reclaimable people, he was not quite a solution of the Neapolitan puzzle.
From Italian Journeys by William Dean Howells
