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Meaning of reclamator | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A person, company or device which reclaims something, especially useful soil (or useful elements in soil) from unusable soil.

Examples

“But a condition of the deal is that NCT gets Persia rid of the £36 million it has out on loans, much of it to land reclamators specialising in such socially desirable activities as 'gentrifying ' run-down residential areas and flat breaking ...”
“Humic soil reclamators as depressors of heavy metal (radionuclide) accumulation by plants A. M. Abramets and E. N. Rovdan - Institute for Problems of Natural Resources Use and Ecology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus”
“soil reclamators. Farm equipment developed by the Bajoran agricultural ministry. The reclamators allowed the Bajoran farmland, which had been poisoned by the Cardassians prior to their departure, to be detoxified and ...”
“As reclamators moved along, they generated an electromagnetic containment field over areas immediately below them. The fields ensnared errant, high-energy particles that broke apart the subatomic bonds that held rusted vehicles, buildings ...”
“Almost immediately Winn decides to move several soil reclamators from Dahkur Province to Rakantha Province—formerly a rich farming area. Like much of Bajor, the Cardassians poisoned its soil as a parting gift.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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