recuperation
nounEtymology Borrowed from Latin recuperātiō. By surface analysis, recuperate + -ion.
1
Usually Gradual restoration to health.
2
Usually Instance of getting something back.
3
Government, Human sciences, Politics, Sciences, Social science, Sociology Usually Process by which radical or subversive ideas are co-opted by mainstream society.
- [Raoul Vaneigem] I have nothing in common with the spectacular recuperation of a project that, in my case, has remained revolutionary throughout.2009 May, Hans Ulrich Obrist, “In Conversation with Raoul Vaneigem”, in e-flux, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2009:
- Derived terms
- nonrecuperation
- Related terms
- recuperate, recovery and reconstitution