Usually means: Regain possession or use of.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. reclaim: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. reclaim: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reclaim: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reclaim: Collins English Dictionary
  5. reclaim: Vocabulary.com
  6. Reclaim, reclaim: Wordnik
  7. reclaim: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. reclaim: Wiktionary
  9. reclaim: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. reclaim: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. reclaim: Dictionary.com
  12. reclaim: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. reclaim: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Reclaim (album), Reclaim (disambiguation), Reclaim (film), Reclaim: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Reclaim: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. reclaim: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. reclaim: Rhymezone
  18. reclaim: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. reclaim: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. reclaim: Free Dictionary
  21. reclaim: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. reclaim: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Reclaim: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. reclaim: Legal dictionary
  4. reclaim: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reclaim: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. RECLAIM: Acronym Finder
  2. reclaim: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reclaim: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See reclaimable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
verb:  (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
verb:  (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
verb:  (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.
verb:  (intransitive, law, Scotland) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
verb:  (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.
noun:  (obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
noun:  (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
noun:  An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.
noun:  baggage reclaim

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