rehab

Clipping of rehabilitation.

• enPR: rēʹhăb, IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːhæb/

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rehab (countable and uncountable, plural rehabs)

1. (informal) Rehabilitation, especially to treat the use of recreational drugs.

   go into rehab

2. (informal) An institution for rehabilitation.
   • 1990 February 4, Leonard Tirado, “Privatized 'Recovery' Versus Collective Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 5:

     The assimilationists would have you believe that there is no lesbian or gay underclass, white or of color. That the junkies, crackheads and rummies in the drunk-tanks and welfare rehabs are all straight. Our addicts all have ample checkbooks, the best insurance their professions can buy, and membership in the right upscale cliques.

3. (firefighting) A brief period of time spent away from the fire by a firefighter at a fire scene, for purposes of recuperation.

rehab (third-person singular simple present rehabs, present participle rehabbing, simple past and past participle rehabbed)

1. (informal, transitive) To rehabilitate.

• Baehr, Behar, Haber, hebra

From English rehab, clipping of rehabilitation.

• Hyphenation: re‧hab

rehab

1. a rehab; an institution for rehabilitation

rehab

1. to rehabilitate; to return (someone) to good health after illness, addiction, etc.
   • 2018 — Baron Geisler Balik-Rehab (24 March), SuperBalita

     Giingong gianunsyo ni Baron Geisler sa iyang Facebook nga magpa-rehab^[sic] siya og balik sugod niadtong Huwebes.

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rehab c

1. (colloquial) rehab ((institution for) rehabilitation)

• rehabilitering (“rehabilitation”)

• rehab in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rehab in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)