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rehabilitation

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˌɹiː.əˌbɪl.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən//
  • /[ˌɹiː.əˌbɪl.ɪˈteɪ.ʃn̩]/

The process of rehabilitating somebody or something.

noun

  1. 1

    The process of rehabilitating somebody or something.

    The working life span of a passenger carriage, on average, is between 30 and 35 years, so a steady replacement takes place quite naturally. The life span of a station, however, cannot be so easily reckoned, for it depends largely on the rehabilitation and upkeep of the existing structures.

    Maybe now it should be clearer why Louis van Gaal has been telling anyone who cares to listen they should not be surprised if Manchester United’s rehabilitation takes longer than they would ideally like.

Etymology

From Middle French réhabilitation, from Medieval Latin rehabilitatio.

Forms

plural
rehabilitations
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).