Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or result of reconstructing.
- noun The period (1865–1877) during which the states that had seceded to the Confederacy were controlled by the federal government before being readmitted to the Union.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of constructing again.
- noun Specifically, in United States history, the process by which, after the civil war, the States which had seceded were restored to the rights and privileges inherent in the Union. The period of reconstruction extended from 1865 to about 1870.
- noun That which is reconstructed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.
- noun (U.S. Politics) The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reëstablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A thing that has been
reconstructed or restored to an earlier state. - noun The act of restoring something to an earlier state.
- noun An attempt to understand in detail how certain events took place or happened.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union; 1865-1877
- noun the activity of constructing something again
- noun an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence
- noun recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall
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Examples
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At this moment the reconstruction is a rudderless ship.
12/12/2005 2005
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At this moment the reconstruction is a rudderless ship.
call it murder 2005
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So we've -- one way we can do this is what we call reconstruction opportunity zones that exist on both sides of the Pak and Afghan border.
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We should be surprised if it were otherwise, because it has been comparatively recent that the seminaries of America have begun what they term a reconstruction of the seminary curriculum.
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Thus it behooves us to handle them with wisdom and tenderness, for by and from them a withered limb, organ or any division of the body receives what we call reconstruction, or is builded anew, and without this cautious procedure your patient had better save his life and money by passing you by as a failure, until you are by knowledge qualified to deal with the lymphatics.
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Such reconstruction is not at issue in the current case.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Constitutional Slaughter Solution? 2010
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He called reconstruction efforts despairingly slow.
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We usually develop an internal long-term reconstruction plan that acts as our guideline over the next four years.
Shira Lazar: Founder Of Architecture For Humanity: We Need To Act Shira Lazar 2011
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Dennis, the breakthrough in reconstruction of the LO images is just breathtaking.
Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Progress Report: More Lunar Boulders - NASA Watch 2009
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"We'll probably need a significantly large amount of funding for the second supplementary budget, so in any case we will need to issue government bonds or what are referred to as reconstruction bonds," Mr. Kan said during a parliamentary session.
Japanese Yields Rise Megumi Fujikawa 2011
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