Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being retrieved or recovered.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That may be retrieved or recovered; admitting of retrieval.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
retrieved orrecovered .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being regained especially with effort
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Passenger records can be viewed, but again little additional data is retrievable from the website.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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Passenger records can be viewed, but again little additional data is retrievable from the website.
Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: The Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation Ins. 2008
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Can't Post | Private Reply will these fora remain retrievable?
How long? 2003
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Second, Russia needs a reduction in and rigid limitation on what is called retrievable potential (depot-based warheads and carriers).
RIA Novosti 2009
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Labour is, as one MP put it to me yesterday, now divided into two clear camps: those who have given up all hope of winning the next election - and are therefore devoting all their energies to the "day after defeat, war-gaming various scenarios" - and those who still believe the situation is "retrievable".
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009
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I know HOW I began to write The Dive From Clausen's Pier; that is, I can locate the earliest retrievable moment in the process, which was
A conversation with Ann Packer, author of The Dive from Clausen's Pier 2010
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If the fatal blows that the team suffered in all four competitions last time out, beginning with the Carling Cup final defeat by Birmingham City, left their mark, then Wenger has maintained that the club's strife early this season was retrievable.
Arsène Wenger greets 2012 with optimism after ending Arsenal's 'crisis' 2012
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All told, easily retrievable sources of over $1 trillion dollars annually are pinpointed, and just by U.S. harvesting.
Walton Cook: Compound Capitalism: Slaying the Dragon of Debt Walton Cook 2012
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Douglas wrote, “It is especially important that an appropriate standards for … tsunamis be applied because perhaps the most likely scenario for release of radiation to the environment is damage to an [independent spent fuel storage installation] or [monitored retrievable storage installation] during a major earthquake, immediately followed by inundation of the damaged facility by a tsunami.”
Regulators Aware For Years Of Understated Seismic Risks To Nuclear Plants 2011
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WAC 434-662-040 states, Electronic records must be retained in electronic format and remain usable, searchable, retrievable and authentic for the length of the designated retention period.
Subtexts « PubliCola 2010
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