Reclaim, reclaimed, reclaimer, reclaiming or reclamation means "to get something back".

It may refer to:

  • Land reclamation, creating new land from oceans, riverbeds, or lake beds
  • Land rehabilitation, restoring disturbed land to its former state
  • Dedesertification, reversing of the land degradation in arid and semi-arid regions
  • Mine reclamation, restoring land that has been mined to a usable state
  • Stream restoration, improving the environmental health of streams and rivers
  • Street reclamation, to increase non-car uses of streets
  • Nature's reclamation, a form of rewilding that allows natural processes to reclaim territory

Materials

  • Reclaimed water, converting wastewater into water that can be used for other purposes
  • Mechanically separated meat, a paste-like meat product
  • Landfill mining, excavation and processing of materials from landfills
  • Materials recovery facility, a specialized plant that receives, separates and prepares recyclable materials
  • Refrigerant reclamation
  • Crumb rubber or reclaimed rubber, recycled rubber produced from automotive scrap tires
  • Reclaimed asphalt pavement, removed pavement materials containing asphalt and aggregates
  • Full depth recycling, a process that rebuilds worn-out asphalt pavements by recycling the existing roadway
  • Sand reclamation, reclamation of stamp sand previously dumped in the water
  • Reclaimed lumber, reuse of processed wood primarily for decoration and home building
  • Ecohouse, made with reclaimed materials

Politics

  • Reclaimed word or reappropriation, a pejorative word or slur used as an affirmation with positive connotation
  • Individual reclamation, the theft of resources by the poor from the rich
  • Reclaiming Patriotism, in Australia
  • Reclaim Australia: Reduce Immigration
  • Reclaim Australia, a far-right political party
  • Reclaim the Streets, anti-car/pro-public-spaces movement
  • Reclaim the Dream commemorative march, in the US
  • Reclaim The Records, a movement to increase availability of public records in the US
  • "Reclaiming my time", a phrase used by Maxine Waters
  • Reclaiming Health and Safety For All, a report in the UK
  • Reclaim Party, a British political party founded by actor Laurence Fox in 2020

Law

  • Presidential power reclamation, covered by the twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
  • Citizenship reclamation, part of the German Citizenship Project
  • United States Bureau of Reclamation, a federal agency which oversees water resource management
  • Newlands Reclamation Act, a 1902 United States federal law that funded irrigation projects
  • Reclamation fund, a special fund established by the 1902 law
  • Reclamation district, special-purpose districts which are responsible for reclaiming and maintaining threatened land
  • Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, a 1977 law in the US
  • Three Kids Mine Remediation and Reclamation Act, a 2013 law in the US
  • RECLAIM Act, a proposed 2017 mining reclamation law in the US
  • Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM), an emissions trading program in California

Religion

  • Center for Reclaiming America for Christ
  • Reclaiming (Neopaganism), a Pagan earth-based spirituality movement

As a synonym for rehabilitation

  • Reclaiming Futures, a non-profit in the US
  • Reclamation of fallen women, by the Church penitentiary in the UK
  • Rehabilitation (penology), re-integration into society of a convicted person

As a synonym for sewage treatment

  • Clark County Water Reclamation District, Clark County, Nevada, US
  • Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, Illinois, US
  • Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility, Spokane, Washington, US
  • Thomas P. Smith Water Reclamation Facility, Tallahassee, Florida, US
  • Tillman Water Reclamation Plant, Los Angeles, California, US

Music

  • Reclaim (album), 2003 album by Keep of Kalessin
  • Reclaim Australia (album), 2016 album by A.B. Original
  • Reclamation (Bigwig album), 2006
  • Reclamation (Candlelight Red album), 2013
  • Reclamation (Front Line Assembly album), 1997
  • Reclaimed (radio show) in Canada

Technology

  • Samsung Reclaim, an eco-friendly feature phone with a sliding keyboard
  • Reclaimer, a machine used to handle bulk materials
  • Baggage reclaim in airports, see also Baggage carousel
  • HMS Reclaim
  • USS Reclaimer (ARS-42), a 1945 salvage ship
  • Reclaim helmet, a type of diving helmet

Other uses

  • Reclaim (film), a 2014 thriller film starring John Cusack and Ryan Phillippe
  • Reclaimed (TV series), a 2020 Discovery Channel USA reality television program about mining, hunting, backcountry camping/cottages, and land claims
  • Reclaimed factories, a form of workers' self-management in socialism
  • Reclaimed Space, an American company

See also

  • Reclaimer (disambiguation)
  • Claim (disambiguation)
  • Restoration (disambiguation)