Webster's English Dictionary

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reconstruction

re.con.struc.tion \.re--k*n-'str*k-sh*n\ n 1a: the action of reconstructing 
   : the state of being reconstructed  often cap  1b: the reorganization and 
   reestablishment of the seceded states in the Uni on after the American 
   Civil War 2: something reconstructed