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retrieve
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retrieve someone or something from some place
to recover and bring back someone or something from some place. The mother hurried to the school and retrieved her child from the classroom. I retrieved my cat from the well into which she had fallen.
See also: place, some

retrieve something from someone

to get something back from someone. I hope I can retrieve my book from the person who borrowed it. We were not able to retrieve the lawn mower from Fred before he moved away and took it with him.


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There is one notable exception to the shift from passenger and freight shipwrecks to the sinking of fishing vessels and, perhaps because of this fact, this event has particular retrievability when people think of seacoast disasters.
Early clinical trials have confirmed the value of the ease of accurate placement, repositionability, and retrievability of the valve.
This section discusses establishing policies and procedures to maintain the confidentiality, safe custody, integrity, accessibility and retrievability of engagement documentation.
 
 
 
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