reconditioningn.

1800 Orders concerning Health 62 Such persons as successively present themselves for the purpose of working at the reconditioning of the bales shall be freely admitted.

1898 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 11 Apr. 7/3 We estimate the country claims and reconditioning charges on cotton arriving last season in Liverpool have exceeded $300,000.

1907 Jrnl. Soc. Compar. Legislation 8 310 The Secretary for Mines may direct the destruction, reconditioning, or other disposal of explosives which he considers dangerous to the public safety.

1920 Sphere 27 Mar. 339 (caption) The word at the top of this page—‘Reconditioning’—may be unfamiliar to the general public, but it is to-day well known to all the shipping world.

1926 Manch. Guardian Weekly Feb. 104/2 Measures are being considered for the improvement and reconditioning of existing rural cottages.

1944 M. Laski Love on Supertax x. 95 You really ought to let me give your hair a thorough re-conditioning.

2007 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 30 Oct. RB14 All vehicles go through a rigorous 120-point inspection and complete reconditioning before they hit the lot.

1917 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Criminal Law & Criminol. 8 690 The stimuli live in the memory, where they have become associated with many elements of the environment; so that the cause is not really removed until a complete reconditioning is effected.

1935 J. E. Wallin Personality Maladjustments xi. 461 Such bonds must be loosened or dissipated by substituting other emotional bonds that are more potent by a process of emotional reconditioning.

1967 J. A. Hadfield Introd. Psychotherapy xiv. 88 One could not deal with this guilt by re-conditioning because neither she nor we knew of its existence.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 674/2 Terhune's method of treatment is simple and consists of a programme of advice, ventilation of conflicts, environmental manipulation and a rather forceful ‘reconditioning’ process.

1972 J. W. Kling et al. Woodworth & Schlosberg's Exper. Psychol. xiv. 570/2 Reconditioning: if extinction trials are followed by a single presentation of the CS-US combination much or all of the effects of extinction will be overcome.

1932 Rep. Forest Products Res. Board 1931 ii. 11 The treatment, which has been called re-conditioning, consisted essentially of warming the timber, which was first dried to a moisture content of 15 per cent.,..to 210 °F in saturated air.

1979 J. G. Wilkinson Industr. Timber Preservation vii. 198 Reconditioning typically involves heating defective boards for between four and eight hours at 100 °C in a steam-filled atmosphere.

2003 G. Webster & H. Osmaston Hist. Uganda Forest Department 1951–1965 65 It would respond to reconditioning in a special steam chamber built for the purpose.