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Reclamation: Making useless land better by changing it, like watering a desert. It can also mean a seller taking back things they sold if the buyer can't pay. Lastly, it can mean getting valuable things from waste.
RECLAMATION
Reclamation is the process of improving the value of land that is not useful for economic purposes by physically changing it. This can include activities like irrigating a desert to make it suitable for farming.
Reclamation can also refer to a seller's limited right to retrieve goods delivered to a buyer when the buyer is insolvent. Additionally, it can refer to the act of obtaining valuable materials from waste materials.
These examples illustrate how reclamation involves physically changing land or materials to make them useful and valuable. In the first example, the land is restored to a state where it can be used for recreational purposes. In the second example, the land is made suitable for farming through the use of irrigation. In the third example, waste materials are transformed into valuable resources through recycling.