The act of rebuilding or reconstructing something that was damaged or weakened; rehabilitation or reconstruction.
地震で壊れた神社を再建する計画が立てられた。
A plan was made to rebuild the shrine destroyed by the earthquake.
会社は債務整理の後、事業の再建に取り組んでいる。
After reorganizing debts, the company is working on rebuilding its business.
戦後、街は急速な再建を遂げた。
After the war, the city underwent rapid reconstruction.
In linguistics: the reconstruction of protoforms — inferring ancestral language forms based on comparison and evidence.
言語学者は比較研究により祖語の語形を再建した。
Linguists reconstructed protoforms through comparative study.