recovery effort
Attempt to retrieve
Recovery effort is organized work to restore what was lost or damaged, typically following disasters, crises, or setbacks.
The phrase appears most often after natural disasters, accidents, or emergencies: Recovery efforts continued three weeks after the hurricane.
It can also apply to economic or institutional restoration: The company's recovery effort focused on rebuilding customer trust.
- rescueSave from harm
- search and rescueFinding and saving people
- searchAct of seeking
- missing personsUnlocated individuals sought by authorities
- salvageRecovering damaged goods
relief · relief workers · rebuilding · restoration · natural disaster · survivors · ground zero · debris · rubble · sifting through · volunteers · first responders · boots on the ground · aftermath · disaster · cleanup · heavy machinery · aid
- aviation disastersplane crash, air crash, midair collision, crash landing, crash site
- patient behaviorsadherence, noncompliance, self-care, follow-up, pill taking
recovery effortprevention
Stopping something before occurring
preparedness · prevention measures · disaster preparedness · risk prevention · precautionary measures
recovery effortdestruction
Act of completely ruining
demolition · sabotage · devastation · wrecking · attack
recovery effortabandonment
Act of leaving permanently
neglect · inaction · giving up · withdrawal · surrender
recovery, effort, recover, recovered, recovering, recoverable, unrecoverable, recoveries, efforts