rehabilitation
/riːəbɪlɪˈteɪʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun]
1The action of restoring someone to health or normal life through training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness: she underwent rehabilitation and was walking within three weeks...
- She prepped for the movie by visiting ex-addicts at a rehabilitation center.
- Housing must provide much more than shelter for low-income individuals undergoing substance abuse rehabilitation.
- He spends his eight weeks of rehabilitation watching the lives across the courtyard behind his Greenwich Village apartment.
1.1The action of restoring someone to former privileges or reputation after a period of disfavour: a posthumous rehabilitation of the activist...
- Various aspects of the knotty problem of physical and moral rehabilitation of Germany and the German people are touched upon.
- Beware: there is at least one last attempt at Southern rehabilitation amongst the extra material.
- The rehabilitation of the actor is complete.
1.2The action of restoring something that has been damaged to its former condition: the rehabilitation of the mangrove forests...
- He hopes to receive a state grant to assist with the rehabilitation work.
- The 1925 art deco-style building in Baltimore, Maryland has just undergone a rehabilitation.
- Aggressive historic preservation efforts have encouraged 249 downtown property rehabilitation projects.