Definition of "reclaim" in English

verb

1. (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.

2. (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.

3. (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.

4. (transitive, dated) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.

5. (transitive, archaic) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.

6. (transitive, archaic) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.

7. (transitive, archaic) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.

8. (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.

9. (intransitive, law, Scotland) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.

10. (sociology) To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.

    • Once a term of homophobic abuse, the term “queer” has been reclaimed as a marker for some gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT), and other marginalized sexual identities.

noun

1. (obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.

2. (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.

3. An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

4. Clipping of baggage reclaim.

5. Material recovered from something that has already been used.

   • Is it okay to smoke cannabis reclaim?