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REGAINING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Getting something back again

Example:

upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing

Synonyms:

regaining; restitution; restoration; return

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("regaining" is a kind of...):

acquisition (the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "regaining"):

clawback (finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way)

Derivation:

regain (get or find back; recover the use of)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb regain

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