The Only Use of
reclamation
in
1984 by Orwell
- As for his sister, she might have been removed, like Winston himself, to one of the colonies for homeless children (Reclamation centers, they were called) which had grown up as a result of the civil war, or she might have been sent to the labor camp along with his mother, or simply left somewhere or other to die.†
p. 163..9
Definition:
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(reclamation) the recovery of something desirable from something undesirable