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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reconstruction \Re'con*struc"tion\ (-str?k"sh?n), noun
1. The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.
2. (U.S. Politics) The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of re["e]stablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Reconstruction
noun
1: the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union; 1865-1877 [syn: {Reconstruction Period}]
2: the activity of constructing something again
3: an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence
4: recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall [syn: {reconstructive memory}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "reconstruction": copy, duplication, imitation, palingenesis, re-creation, re-formation, reassembling, reassembly, rebirth, rebuilding, reconstitution, redesign, redoing, reedition, reestablishment, refabrication, refashioning, regeneration, regenesis, reinstitution, reissue, remaking, remodeling, renascence, renovation, reorganization, repetition, reprinting, reproduction, reshaping, restoration, restructuring, resurrection, revision, revival
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