As a new type of ionic liquids, basic deep eutectic solvents have been reported as emerging medium for biorefinery, extraction, catalysis and so on. Quantitative recovery with recycling of basic DES was important for the scale utilization of biomass and the environmental conservation. An electrodialysis-based method was designed for divisionally regenerating basic DES choline chloride-monoethanol amine (ChCl-MEA) after pretreatment of wheat straw. Influence of primary process parameters on recovery of ChCl-MEA was studied and recovery economy of ChCl-MEA was analyzed. Recovery ratio of ChCl and MEA varied within 89.2 %-96.0 % and 93.3 %-97.9 %. Energy consumption of ChCl-MEA recovery changed within 4.2–29.4 kW·h/kg. Transport rate of basic DES ChCl-MEA altered in the range of 12.2–464.7 mmol/(m2·min). Process economy analysis proved that recovery cost of basic DES ChCl-MEA was less than 7 % (0.81–7.07 $/kg) of DES purchase cost. Insight brought by this study indicated a technically feasible and economical approach for basic DES recycling after biomass pretreatment.