rehabilitation
noun
Simple meaning
Helping someone recover health, skills or a normal life after illness, injury or prison.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
reehuhbihluhtayshuhnSay the bold part a little louder.
IPA pronunciation (US)
ɹihəbɪləˈteɪʃən
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
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Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
The process of rehabilitating somebody or something.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- B1 · Intermediate
- Frequency
- Common
- Typical Use
- Everyday English
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: The process of rehabilitating somebody or something.
Used this way, rehabilitation is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use rehabilitation
- “He underwent rehabilitation therapy to recover from his injury.”
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Common Patterns and Combinations
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Word Family
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Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
A program for restoring someone to good health.
Providing help for disabled persons.
Providing penal custody or probation or parole for convicted offenders.
Providing help for disabled persons.
Providing training in a specific trade with the aim of gaining employment.
A program of rehabilitation through job training with an eye to gainful employment.
Related words
Connected by subject or meaning, not by word formation.
Designed to accomplish rehabilitation.
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