RECOVERABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recoverable mean? 

• RECOVERABLE (adjective)
  The adjective RECOVERABLE has 1 sense:

1. capable of being recovered or regained

  Familiarity information: RECOVERABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECOVERABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of being recovered or regained

Context example:

recoverable truth of a past event

Similar:

redeemable (recoverable upon payment or fulfilling a condition)

retrievable (capable of being regained especially with effort)

Antonym:

unrecoverable (incapable of being recovered or regained)

 Context examples 

She had good reason to believe that some property of her husband in the West Indies, which had been for many years under a sort of sequestration for the payment of its own incumbrances, might be recoverable by proper measures; and this property, though not large, would be enough to make her comparatively rich.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)