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Meaning of recoveree | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The person against whom a judgement is obtained in common recovery.
    historical
  2. Someone who is in the process of recovering from addiction.
  3. Someone who has or is in the process of recovering from an illness.
  4. Someone who has been rescued by a combat operation.

Examples

“As already indicated elsewhere (vide ante, c. ix.), a recovery was only, even if real and adverse, effective as against the party — the recoveree and his heirs and legal representatives — that is, those "privy" to him in estate.”
“In all recoveries it is necessary that the recoveree, or tenant to the præcipe, as he is usually called, be actually seised of the freehold, else the recovery is void.”
“For it was thought, that upon suffering the recovery or levying the fine, the use ressulted to the recoveree or conuzor, which resulting use the statute immediately executed: so that the use being once vested and executed by the statute, it could not be divested by any subsequent declaration.”
“The area was much too important to the prospective recoveree to be tampered with by mortal man.”
“In this CCAR program, a recoveree receives a phone call from a trained CCAR volunteer (usually a person in recovery) once a week for a minimum of 12 weeks to check-in on the recoveree's progress.”
“The most succinct way to think about recovery coaches is that they are life coaches for persons with substance use disorders. As life coaches, they focus not only on the disorder but first and foremost on the broad components of the recoveree's life: health, housing, education, employment, relationships, and more. Early on, the coach engages with the recoveree in what is called “motivational interviewing”—basically open-ended conversation about what the recoveree desires in life.”
“On another afternoon, as a "surprise" feature of the Physical Fitness and Recreation group, six little girls from the local elementary school gave a demonstration in physical education; one of the children was a "recoveree" of crippling infantile paralysis.”
“It was like I was the one, not John, who was recovering from an illness, and I had all of the recoveree's heightened senses and exalted oaths to stop being dead to this carniaval called life.”
“Often when well-meaning friends or relatives compliment the recoveree on how much healthier they look, the recoveree's mind replaces "healthy" with "fat."”
“It was decided that all recoverees should be screened by the medical staff of USAHS Marigold, anchored in Yokohama harbor.”
“Only a few officers were told that the recoverees would be POWs.”
“He also understood the implication that the recoverees might still have mixed allegiance.”

CEFR level

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

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