rehab

[shorterning of rehabilitation]

Informal

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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(used attributively) of or having to do with the rehabilitation program introduced by the Department of Veterans Affairs following World War II.

Quotations

1949

The car was completely theirs though; he'd paid cash for it out of his rehab money. . . .

1961

The rehab staff gave us good counselling and it is easier now.

1964

By then I had a wife and child and my army rehab allowance was $90 a month.