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reclamator

reclamator noun: a person, company or device which reclaims something, especially useful soil (or useful elements in soil) from unusable soil.

Noun

reclamator (plural reclamators)

  1. A person, company or device which reclaims something, especially useful soil (or useful elements in soil) from unusable soil.
    • But a condition of the deal is that NCT gets Persia rid of the £36 million it has out on loans, much of it to land reclamators specialising in such socially desirable activities as 'gentrifying ' run-down residential areas and flat breaking ...1975, Private Eye
    • Humic soil reclamators as depressors of heavy metal (radionuclide) accumulation by plants
      A. M. Abramets and E. N. Rovdan - Institute for Problems of Natural Resources Use and Ecology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus2006, Walter Horst, M.K. Schenk, A. Bürkert, N. Claassen, H. Flessa, W.B. Frommer, Heiner E. Goldbach, H.-W. Olfs, V. Römheld, B. Sattelmacher, U. Schmidhalter, S. Schubert, N. von Wirén, L....

Examples of reclamator in a sentence

  • The reclamators allowed the Bajoran farmland, which had been poisoned by the Cardassians prior to their departure, to be detoxified and ...2011, Michael Okuda, Denise Okuda, Debbie Mirek, The Star Trek Encyclopedia, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
  • As reclamators moved along, they generated an electromagnetic containment field over areas immediately below them.2012, Aimery Thomas, Primae Noctis, Aimery Thomas, →ISBN:
  • Almost immediately Winn decides to move several soil reclamators from Dahkur Province to Rakantha Province—formerly a rich farming area.2013, Phil Farrand, NITPICKER'S GUIDE FOR DEEP SPACE (NEXT), Dell, →ISBN:

Forms of reclamator

pluralreclamators

Questions about reclamator

What does reclamator mean?
Reclamator means a person, company or device which reclaims something, especially useful soil (or useful elements in soil) from unusable soil.
How do you use reclamator in a sentence?
The reclamators allowed the Bajoran farmland, which had been poisoned by the Cardassians prior to their departure, to be detoxified and ...
What part of speech is reclamator?
Reclamator is a noun.
What is the plural of reclamator?
The plural of reclamator is reclamators.

Words near reclamator in the dictionary

  1. reclaims one's time
  2. reclama
  3. reclamas
  4. reclamation
  5. reclamations
  6. reclamator
  7. reclamators
  8. reclamatory
  9. reclame
  10. reclamed
  11. reclaming

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