Synonym: Restoration, refurbishment, regaining, renovation, restitution, return. Similar words: corporation, exploration, collaboration, prestidigitation, restore, ratification, gratification, restriction. Meaning: [‚restə'reɪʃn] n. 1. the reign of Charles II in England; 1660-1685 2. the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state 3. getting something back again 4. the state of being restored to its former good condition 5. some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed 6. a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc. 7. the re-establishment of the British monarchy in 1660.
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(91) The Stroganov, like the other two palaces, needs a great deal of money for restoration and maintenance.
(92) It launched its £2.5 million restoration appeal in April, and almost £500,000 has already been raised.
(93) After the Restoration he was one of those not actually attainted but perpetually disabled from holding any office.
(94) The charge has hit a nerve, persuading the company to earmark 265 Levantine buildings for special restoration.
(95) Calls for the restoration of the death penalty were applauded loudly, but did not dominate the event as in past years.
(96) Ritter plans to tear down the building, saying restoration would be impractical.
(97) After the Restoration Garway was in 1661 returned to Parliament for Chichester, and quickly became one of its most assiduous members.
(98) This seems a clear example of his allegiance to popular dissent against the Church and social elite who supported the Restoration.
(99) The restoration scheme, to be completed by 1998, should ensure a minimum flow of 34 million litres a day.
(100) This will include both initial restoration work and the annual deficit on running the house and opening it to the public.
(101) Coast -- $ 17 million for wetlands, water quality, planning, access and beach restoration.
(102) There is a need to continue the restoration of self-confidence in the teaching profession and to raise morale.
(103) This records the restoration of a principia by Naevius, an assistant procurator, in the early third century.
(104) First, to improve the conditions that can be imposed on a planning consent for the restoration of mineral working.
(105) Not surprisingly, many gentry and clergy modified their public pronouncements accordingly, surviving both Parliamentary rule and the Restoration.
(106) Aston Martin Lagonda is introducing a service and restoration programme which means its cars should live longer than their owners.
(107) The restoration was singled out for praise in 1986 when it was highly commended by the Association of Railway Preservation Societies.
(108) Groups of legal immigrants have started to demonstrate at the Capitol to express their demands for restoration of cuts relevant to them.
(109) Buchanan, Campbell, and Kingsmill were back in 1883 with a new prospectus for their restoration company.
(110) The way P. D. James sees it, the murder mystery is all about the restoration of order to a disorderly world.
(111) In 1987 a survey concluded that the theatre should shut immediately, to allow structural repairs, rewiring, refitting and restoration.
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(112) Some of the vacant buildings may have deteriorated to such a condition that restoration costs would be prohibitive.
(113) It called for a free vote on marijuana, and also for possible referendums on abortion and the restoration of capital punishment.
(114) Willard's restoration of white dominance in heavyweight boxing in 1916 coincided with the re-establishment of the colour line.
(115) The next chapter is concerned with further provisions for the cleansing and restoration of those who find themselves ritually unclean.
(116) His decision to purchase the mill heralded the start of a thorough and extensive process of restoration.
(117) Some will be prepared to sacrifice a short-term class advantage to the mandate for a long-term restoration of the national well-being.
(118) Her family were prominent and staunch parliamentarians and, after the Restoration, noted dissenters.
(119) So far only a preliminary amount of work has been carried out in order to assess the restoration work required.
(120) Adherence to Lancaster meant a further forfeiture in 1461, but this was followed by a second restoration in 1470.
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