Definition of "recuperation"

recuperation

noun
usually uncountable, plural recuperations
1. Gradual restoration to health.
2. Instance of getting something back.
3. (politics, sociology) Process by which radical or subversive ideas are co-opted by mainstream society.
  Quotations
  [Raoul Vaneigem] I have nothing in common with the spectacular recuperation of a project that, in my case, has remained revolutionary throughout.
  2009 May, Hans Ulrich Obrist, “In Conversation with Raoul Vaneigem”, in e-flux‎, archived from the original on 2009-09-07