v. - cover again.

- provide (a chair etc.) With a new cover.

- v. - regain possession, use, or control of.

- return to health, consciousness, or to a normal state or position.

- obtain or secure by legal process.

- retrieve or make up for (a loss, setback, etc.).

- refl. Regain composure, consciousness, or control of one's limbs.

- retrieve (reusable substances) from waste. recoverable adj. [latin: related to *recuperate]

v. Cross again.

—n. - newly enlisted serviceman or servicewoman.

- new member of a society etc.

- beginner. —v. - enlist (a person) as a recruit.

- form (an army etc.) By enlisting recruits.

- get or seek recruits.

- replenish or reinvigorate (numbers, strength, etc.). recruitment n. [french dial. Recrute: related to *crew1]

v. (-ies, -ied) 1 adjust or make right.

- purify or refine, esp. By repeated distillation.

- convert (alternating current) to direct current. rectifiable adj. Rectification n. Rectifier n. [latin rectus straight, right]

n. (pl. -ies) rector's house. [french or medieval latin: related to *rector]

v. (-ling) convert (waste) to reusable material. recyclable adj.

n. Hist. British soldier.

n. Person with red hair.

n. Us often derog. Politically conservative working-class white in the southern us.

n. Mil. Outwork or fieldwork without flanking defences. [french redoute: related to *reduce]