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REGAINING

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Dictionary entry overview: What does regaining mean?

• REGAINING (noun)
The noun REGAINING has 1 sense:

1. getting something back again

Familiarity information: REGAINING used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• REGAINING (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Getting something back again

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

regaining; restitution; restoration; return

Context example:

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

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)

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