refurbishment

noun

Definition of refurbishmentnext
as in rehabilitation

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  1. rehabilitation
  2. restoration
  3. reclamation
  4. reconstruction
  5. rehab
Noun
  • The children's father is in a rehabilitation facility.
    Stepheny Price, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Intensive rehabilitation followed, first at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, to address cognitive and physical challenges, before returning to California for outpatient therapy.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of rehabilitation
Noun
  • Learn timber frame Learn timber frame restoration construction during a class Nov. 17-23 at Cane Hill.
    Flip Putthoff, arkansasonline.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Before the purchase, Courvoisier had already started the multimillion dollar restoration of its grand maison in Jarnac, which also houses offices.
    Kevin Rozario, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of restoration
Noun
  • The rally, like the campaign itself, was an act of reclamation.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room (2015) saw a group of young punks fight for survival against a gang of neo-Nazi skinheads in a reclamation of punk, not only as a music genre but as a lifestyle.
    Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of reclamation
Noun
  • The second generation joined the IRGC in the decade after the Iran-Iraq War, when the Revolutionary Guards expanded into carrying out lucrative postwar reconstruction projects.
    Saeid Golkar, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Now a new study provides the first full reconstruction of the living animal.
    David Bressan, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Definition of reconstruction
Noun
  • How did your experience in rehab in 2023 inform the past year for you?
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The rehab facility was an hour and a half away by bus.
    Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of rehab
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