reconstruction.

1. The rebuilding of something damaged, dismantled, or lost.

2. An account of an earlier event or form pieced together from surviving evidence.

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Words that belong together

• structural reconstruction
• postwar reconstruction

On the page

Structural reconstruction began after the damaged walls were stabilized.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation, evaluation. Commonness: moderately common.