Phrase Hound found 37 phrases and 12 compound words that contain recovery. The most common are listed below. Open recovery in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 37
- data recoveryThe process of retrieving deleted, inaccessible, lost, corrupted, damaged, or formatted data from secondary storage, removable media or files, when the data stored in them cannot be accessed in the usual way.
- Disaster Recovery
- Economic recovery
- Recovery software
- recovery positionThe position, into which helpers will typically place an unconscious person, of lying on the floor three-quarters prone, on one's side; this position maximizes the likelihood of the person's airway remaining open.
- Recovery Plan
- Password recovery
- recovery vehicleA vehicle designed and equipped for the recovery of other vehicles, which have either broken down, got stuck, or been involved in an accident.
- recovery timeAdditional time built into a train timetable to allow the train to recover from any delays en route, without arriving at its destination late according to the published arrival time.
- common recoveryA legal proceeding in England that enabled lawyers to convert an entailed estate into absolute ownership, fee simple, by means of a legal fiction.
- recovery CDA CD-ROM distributed with a computer and containing copies of the software originally installed on the computer's hard drive, allowing the end user to restore the system to its factory state.
- recovery roomA fraudulent operation in which the fraudsters contact people who have already been scammed and offer to recover their lost money, but in fact steal more money from the victims.
- recovery boilerA boiler for recovering the sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide used in a chemical wood pulping process.
- recovery discSynonym of recovery CD: A CD-ROM distributed with a computer and containing copies of the software originally installed on the computer's hard drive, allowing the end user to restore the system to its factory state.
- recovery truckA tow truck, recovery vehicle.
- advanced meat recoveryA technical application by which a slaughterhouse removes residual tissue (resulting in mechanically separated meat) from the bones of slaughter animals after the particular primal cuts have been made.
- materials recovery facilityA waste recycling plant.
- recovery time objectiveThe amount of time within which a business process must be restored after a disruption in order to avoid unacceptable consequences.
- recovery roomsplural of recovery room: A fraudulent operation in which the fraudsters contact people who have already been scammed and offer to recover their lost money, but in fact steal more money from the victims.
- recovery timesplural of recovery time: Additional time built into a train timetable to allow the train to recover from any delays en route, without arriving at its destination late according to the published arrival time.
- recovery CDsplural of recovery CD: A CD-ROM distributed with a computer and containing copies of the software originally installed on the computer's hard drive, allowing the end user to restore the system to its factory state.
- recovery vehiclesplural of recovery vehicle: A vehicle designed and equipped for the recovery of other vehicles, which have either broken down, got stuck, or been involved in an accident.
- recovery momentSynonym of rally (“a recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)”).
- W-shaped recoverySynonym of W-shaped recession: An economic downturn where key indicators such as GDP and employment plummet sharply, briefly rebound, dip again, and then recover fully, forming a W pattern on a chart.
- recovery positionsplural of recovery position: The position, into which helpers will typically place an unconscious person, of lying on the floor three-quarters prone, on one's side; this position maximizes the likelihood of the person's airway remaining …
Compound words 12
- rerecoveryAn additional recovery following a relapse.
- precoveryThe use of previously gathered data (especially photographic images) to recover a recently discovered object (typically a small solar system body).
- overrecoveryThe recovery of more money than was actually owed.
- antirecoveryPreventing or opposing recovery.
- biorecoveryThe use of biological agents (typically microorganisms) to recover metals from low-grade ores
- cryorecoveryrecovery of a cryopreserved material
- neurorecoveryThe recovery of the nervous system after a stroke or other trauma
- nonrecoveryNot involving recovery; of an industrial process, in which reusable components, etc. are not recovered.
- osmorecoveryThe recovery of osmotic balance after exercise
- photorecoveryThe recovery / restoration of DNA in skin damaged by exposure to light