rehabilitation

Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Financial, Acronyms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

re·ha·bil·i·tate

(rē′hə-bĭl′ĭ-tāt′)

tr.v. re·ha·bil·i·tat·ed, re·ha·bil·i·tat·ing, re·ha·bil·i·tates

1. To restore to good health or useful life, as through therapy and education: rehabilitate a patient; rehabilitate a prison inmate.

2. To restore to good condition: rehabilitate a storefront; rehabilitate the economy.

3. To cause to be regarded again in a positive way; reestablish esteem for: rehabilitate a reputation; rehabilitate a forgotten poet.

4. To restore the former rank, privileges, or rights of: Under the new regime, party members who had been sent to prison were rehabilitated.

[Medieval Latin rehabilitāre, rehabilitāt-, to restore to a former rank : Latin re-, re- + Late Latin habilitāre, to enable; see habilitate.]

re′ha·bil′i·tat′a·ble adj.

re′ha·bil′i·ta′tion n.

re′ha·bil′i·ta′tive adj.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

rehabilitation

(ˌriːəˌbɪlɪˈteɪʃən)

1. (Social Welfare) the act or process of rehabilitating

2. (Medicine) med

a. the treatment of physical disabilities by massage, electrotherapy, or exercises

b. (as modifier): rehabilitation centre.

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

rehabilitation

1. The processing, usually in a relatively quiet area, of units or individuals recently withdrawn from combat or arduous duty, during which units recondition equipment and are rested, furnished special facilities, filled up with replacements, issued replacement supplies and equipment, given training, and generally made ready for employment in future operations.
2. The action performed in restoring an installation to authorized design standards.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun	1.	rehabilitation - the restoration of someone to a useful place in society restoration - the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state correctional rehabilitation - providing penal custody or probation or parole for convicted offenders physical rehabilitation, physical restoration, therapeutic rehabilitation - providing help for disabled persons; the removal or reduction of disabilities vocational rehabilitation - providing training in a specific trade with the aim of gaining employment
	2.	rehabilitation - the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation reclamation, renewal restoration - the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state re-afforestation, reforestation - the restoration (replanting) of a forest that had been reduced by fire or cutting urban renewal - the clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums
	3.	rehabilitation - vindication of a person's character and the re-establishment of that person's reputation vindication, exoneration - the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc.; "friends provided a vindication of his position"
	4.	rehabilitation - the treatment of physical disabilities by massage and electrotherapy and exercises physiatrics, physical therapy, physiotherapy - therapy that uses physical agents: exercise and massage and other modalities

rehabilitation

noun

The systematic application of remedies to effect a cure:

care, regimen, therapy, treatment.

Informal: rehab.

Translations

إعادَة تأهيل

rehabilitace

rehabilitering

Rehabilitierung

rehabilitación

réhabilitation réadaptation

rehabilitálás

endurhæfing

riabilitazione

attføring omskolering

реабилитация

rehabilitácia

rehabilitasyon

复原

rehabilitation

[ˈriːəˌbɪlɪˈteɪʃən]

A. N → rehabilitación f

B. CPD rehabilitation centre N → centro m de rehabilitación

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

rehabilitation

[ˌriːhəbɪlɪˈteɪʃ^ən] n

[offender] → réhabilitation f

[patient] → rééducation frehabilitation centre n (for drug or alcohol problems) → centre m de désintoxication

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

rehabilitation

(of refugee, troops, the disabled) → Eingliederung f → in die Gesellschaft; (of ex-criminal) → Rehabilitation f; (of drug addict, alcoholic) → Therapie f

(= restoration of position) → Rehabilitation f; (of reputation) → Wiederherstellung f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

rehabilitation

[ˈriːəˌbɪlɪˈteɪʃ/ən] n (of offender, of disabled) → ricupero, reinserimento

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

rehabilitate

(riːəˈbiliteit) verb

to bring (a criminal or someone who has been ill) back to a normal life, normal standards of behaviour etc by treatment or training.

ˈrehaˌbiliˈtation noun

re·ha·bil·i·ta·tion

n. rehabilitación, acto de rehabilitar.

rehabilitation

n rehabilitación f

References in classic literature ?

How could she face her parents, get back her box, and disconcert the whole scheme for the rehabilitation of her family on such sentimental grounds?

View in context

Pittrino was puffed up with all the joy of a rehabilitation.

View in context

Christie was too relieved at the rehabilitation of Jessie's truthfulness to notice the full significance of his speech.

View in context

We afterward had the thing reconstructed, and the owner can have his adventurous lost-property by submitting proofs and paying costs of rehabilitation. We had hopes of finding the owner there, distributed around amongst the rocks, for it would have made an elegant paragraph; but we were disappointed.

View in context

Selfridge Merry bore across the room to join them, and it became clear to Archer that here also a conspiracy of rehabilitation and obliteration was going on.

View in context

What a difficult undertaking is the rehabilitation of the Civil Service while the liberal cries aloud in his newspapers that the salaries of clerks are a standing theft, calls the items of the budget a cluster of leeches, and every year demands why the nation should be saddled with a thousand millions of taxes.

View in context

The rehabilitation literature encourages assessment of problem solving skills as part of the vocational planning process for those individuals who are felt to be experiencing difficulties in making choices (Syzmanski & Parker, 1996, Rubin & Roessler, 2001, Zunker, 2002).

Balancing intuition and reason: tuning in to indecision

Because the issues surrounding transition services are so varied and important, this issue of American Rehabilitation is dedicated to promoting a more seamless and effective delivery system for students with disabilities.

Mentors: paving the transition from school to adulthood for students with disabilities

Through the Internal Revenue Code Section 47, the federal government offers lucrative rehabilitation tax credits to encourage preservation and adaptive reuse of historic and pre-1936 buildings.

Hotel rehab projects may be eligible for tax credits. (Hotel Development)

While incorporating the health management aspects of telehealth, telerehabilitation also utilizes telecommunication technologies to improve access to rehabilitation services that support independent services for persons with disabilities.

The use of telerehabilitation in assistive technology

A comprehensive rehabilitation team is comprised of: physician, case manager, rehabilitation nurses, physical therapist, occupational therapist, speech and language pathologist, respiratory therapist, dietitian/nutritionist, recreation therapist, quality manager and/or the party responsible for collecting and monitoring treatment data, activity staff, social worker and, of course, the family/caregivers.

Rehabilitation: finding expert advice

Rehabilitation teams include the physician, the patient, and other rehabilitation professionals whose skills are needed to achieve favorable patient outcomes.