reconstructionnoun
uk/ˌriː.kənˈstrʌk.ʃən/us/ˌriː.kənˈstrʌk.ʃən/C1 [ U ] the process of building or creating something again that has been damaged or destroyed:
Post-war economic reconstruction in the country must begin with the resumption of agricultural production.
C2 [ C ] an attempt to get a complete description of an event using the information available, or an attempt to repeat what happened during the event:
A dramatized reconstruction of the robbery was shown on television to try to make people remember information that would help the police.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Correcting and mending
- clean (sth) up
- correction
- fiddle (around) with sth
- fine-tune
- fix sth up
- lie
- mess
- patch
- refine
- refinement
- refit
- remediate
- remediation
- revised
- smooth
- troubleshooting
- tune
- tune (sth) up
- under repair idiom
- work on sth
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