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Awarded vs Recovered - What's the difference?

awarded | recovered |

As verbs the difference between awarded and recovered

is that awarded is (award) while recovered is (recover).

awarded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (award)

    • award

    English

    (wikipedia award)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (legal) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
  • (legal) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
  • A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A based on merit.
  • (obsolete) Care, keeping.
  • *, Bk.VIII, Ch.ix:
  • *:Than the kynge for grete favour made Tramtryste to be put in his doughtyrs awarde and kepying, because she was a noble surgeon.
  • A negotiated minimum wage that is set for a particular trade or industry; an .
  • *1970 , Kenneth Frederick Walker, Australian Industrial Relations Systems , p.242,
  • *:The AMIEU[(Australian Meat Industry Employees Union)] first developed into a powerful organisation in the early years of the twentieth century, and after the first industry-wide collective agreement was made in 1911, collective bargaining prevailed in the industry until 1917, when the employers sought an award' from the Queensland Industrial Court. The first ' award was issued on March 12, 1918.
  • *2000 , Mark Wooden, The Transformation of Australian Industrial Relations , p.42,
  • *:A further 17 per cent responded that the agreement replaced ‘most’ aspects of the award', leaving the large majority (67 per cent) claiming that the agreeement replaced only ‘some’ aspects of the ' award .
  • *2007 , (Australian Bureau of Statistics), 2007 Year book, Australia , p.182,
  • *:Employees whose pay is set by ‘award' only’ are those who have their pay set by an '''award''', and who are not paid more than the ' award rate of pay.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (legal) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.
  • * Dryden
    • To review / The wrongful sentence, and award a new.
  • To determine; to make or grant an award.
  • to give an (prize) for merit
    • He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

    Synonyms

    * (make or grant an award) crown

    Derived terms

    * awardee * awarder

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    recovered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (recover)

    • recover

    English

    Alternative forms

    * recovre (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) recoverer and (etyl) recovrer, from (etyl) recuperare.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To get back, regain (a physical thing lost etc.).
  • * Bible, 1 Sam. xxx. 18
    • David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away.
  • * , chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
  • To return to, resume (a given state of mind or body).
  • (obsolete) To reach (a place), arrive at.
  • * Fuller
    • With much ado the Christians recovered to Antioch.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The forest is not three leagues off; / If we recover that, we're sure enough.
  • * Hales
    • Except he could recover one of the Cities of Refuge he was to die.
  • (archaic) To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The wine in my bottle will recover him.
  • *, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.233-4:
    • Cnelius a physiciangave him a clyster, by which he was speedily recovered .
  • * Bible, 2. Tim. ii. 26
    • that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him
  • (archaic) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of.
    • to recover lost time
  • * Rogers
    • Even good men have many failings and lapses to lament and recover .
  • (archaic) To get better from; to get over.
  • * Cowley
    • I do hope to recover my late hurt.
  • * De Foe
    • when I had recovered a little my first surprise
  • To get better, regain one's health.
  • To regain one's composure, balance etc.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title= The China Governess, chapter=19
    • , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
  • (legal) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit.
    • The plaintiff has recovered in his suit.
  • (legal) To gain as compensation or reparation.
    • to recover''' damages in trespass; to '''recover debt and costs in a suit at law
    to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery
  • (legal) To gain by legal process.
    • to recover judgement against a defendant
    Related terms
    * recovery

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) Recovery.
  • *:
  • *:It was neuer in my thoughte saide la?celot to withholde the quene from my lord Arthur / but in soo moche she shold haue ben dede for my sake / me semeth it was my parte to saue her lyf and putte her from that daunger tyl better recouer myghte come / & now I thanke god sayd sir Launcelot that the pope hath made her pees
  • (label) A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and the sling facing out.

    • Etymology 2

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover again.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • (roofing) To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.

    • Anagrams

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