The change of attitudes and behaviors that brings about a life free of chemicals Recovery is in terms of a process not a single event It is ongoing, and one refers to being "in recovery " Recovery embraces the idea that one lives life positively one day at a time
1 The long-term activities beyond the initial crisis period and emergency response phase of disaster operations that focus on returning all systems in the community to a normal status or to reconstitute these systems to a new condition that is less vulnerable (FEMA definition) 2 Actions of responders, government, and the victims that help return an affected community to normal by stimulating community cohesiveness and government involvement, One type of recovery involves repairing infrastructure, damaged buildings, and critical facilities The recovery period falls between the onset of the emergency and the reconstruction period (Landesman definition)
return to an original state; "the recovery of the forest after the fire was surprisingly rapid"
The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by a verdict and judgment of court
In transaction systems, after a failure, the ability to restore the system to the most recently committed, and therefore consistent, state In distributed systems, recovery may involve resynchronizing several distributed components Once a system has been recovered, processing can resume, and transactions aborted as a result of the failure can be resubmitted
1 The procedure or action that obtains when the whole of a satellite, or a section, instrumentation package, or other part of a rocket vehicle is retrieved after a launch, as in recovery was counted upon to give added data
If someone is in recovery, they are being given a course of treatment to help them recover from something such as a drug habit or mental illness. Carole, a compulsive pot smoker and alcoholic in recovery
The amount of mineral separated and recovered in a mill, and expressed as a percentage of that calculated to be the original ore
the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost) return to an original state; "the recovery of the forest after the fire was surprisingly rapid
When there is a recovery in a country's economy, it improves. Interest-rate cuts have failed to bring about economic recovery