Meaning & use
recultivation
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Meanings
noununcountabletechnical
The act of preparing land for growing crops again, especially after it has been damaged, mined, or left unused.
Grammar: Uncountable: use it without 'a' or a plural, as in 'the recultivation of the site'.
Patterns
- the recultivation of something
- recultivation of land
- a recultivation program
The company promised the recultivation of the old mine site within five years.
Recultivation of abandoned farmland has become a priority for the local council.
After the flood, recultivation of the fields took several seasons.
noununcountabletechnical
The process of bringing an area of land back into agricultural use after it has been built on or otherwise changed.
Grammar: Also uncountable; often followed by 'of' plus the place.
Patterns
- the recultivation of something
- recultivation after something
The report describes the recultivation of former industrial land for vegetable farming.
Recultivation after open-cast mining requires careful soil treatment.
Government grants support the recultivation of marginal land.
Common combinations
- land recultivation
- Land recultivation is expensive but necessary after mining.
- recultivation program
- The state launched a recultivation program for degraded soil.
- recultivation of soil
- Recultivation of soil takes years of careful management.
- recultivation project
- Local farmers joined a recultivation project on the hillside.
- recultivation costs
- Recultivation costs are usually paid by the mining company.
Synonyms and how they differ
- restoration
- Broader and used for returning any damaged land or building to a good state, not only for farming use.
- reclamation
- Often used for making land usable again, especially after mining or from the sea, and sounds more technical or official.
- rehabilitation
- Suggests helping something recover to a healthy state and is common in environmental and medical writing.
Opposites
Word family
- recultivate verb
- To prepare land for growing crops again.
- cultivation noun
- The growing of crops on land.
- cultivate verb
- To prepare and use land for crops.
- cultivator noun
- A person or machine that prepares land for crops.
Commonly confused: recultivation or cultivation? recultivation or recreation?
recultivation vs cultivation
Cultivation is simply the growing of crops; recultivation adds the idea of doing it again after the land was damaged or unused.
recultivation vs recreation
Recreation means enjoyable activity in free time, and it sounds similar, but it has nothing to do with farming land.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'recultivation' correctly?
Choose one answer.
'Recultivation' is an uncountable noun meaning the act of bringing land back into farming use, so 'the recultivation of the old quarry' fits. Option 2 treats it as a countable leisure event, option 3 uses it as a verb, and option 4 uses a plural verb with an uncountable noun.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “recultivation”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.