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redress - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To set right (an undesirable situation, for example); remedy or rectify. synonym: correct.
- transitive verb To make amends to.
- noun Satisfaction for wrong or injury; reparation.
- noun The act of redressing; rectification or reformation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dress again, in any sense: as, to
redress furniture or leather; to redress a wound. - To set up or upright; make erect; reërect.
- To set right again; restore; amend; mend.
- To put right, as a wrong; remedy; repair, relieve against, as an injury: as, to
redress injuries; to redress grievances. Seeredress , n., 2. - To relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; bestow relief upon; compensate; make amends to.
- To rise again; reërect one's self.
- noun A setting right again; a putting into proper order; amendment; reformation.
- noun Deliverance from wrong, injury, or oppression; removal of grievances or oppressive burdens; undoing of wrong; reparation; indemnification.
- noun Synonyms Relief, amends, compensation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
- transitive verb To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
- transitive verb To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
- transitive verb To dress again.
- noun rare The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
- noun A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; ; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
- noun One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To put in
order again; to set right; toemend ; torevise . - verb To set
right , as a wrong; torepair , as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from. - verb To make amends or
compensation to; torelieve of anythingunjust oroppressive ; tobestow relief upon. - verb obsolete, transitive To put
upright again; torestore . - noun The act of redressing; a making
right ;reformation ;correction ;amendment . - noun A setting right, as of
wrong , injury, oroppression ; as, the redress ofgrievances ; hence, relief;remedy ;reparation ;indemnification . - noun One who, or that which, gives relief; a
redresser . - verb To
dress again. - verb To
redecorate a previously existingfilm set so that it can double for another set. - noun The
redecoration of a previously existingfilm set so that it can double for another set.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
- verb make reparations or amends for
- noun a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English redressen, from Old French redrecier : re-, re- + drecier, to arrange; see dress.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Anglo-Norman redrecier and Middle French redresser, from re- + drecier ("dress").
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
re- + dress.
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Examples
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He seized upon the best apartments, and carried himself with so much haughtiness, that, provoked beyond endurance, I ordered my horse, and, accompanied by my honest courtiers, rode to Rouen to obtain redress from the governor.
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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While he admits the £30,000 maximum for redress is not high, he believes most cases will relate to small amounts of money.
Got a legal complaint? Now you can take it to the new legal ombudsman Jill Insley 2010
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DB Cooper: P.S.: Because of fear of redress from the governments or any of their agencies, no other information is available at thistime.
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Reprieve is petitioning the Lahore High Court to demand redress from the Pakistani government, ministries and agencies for so far failing to uphold these rights.
Crofton Black: Can Pakistan Be Held Accountable For American Crimes? Crofton Black 2010
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P.S.: Because of fear of redress from the governments or any of their agencies, no other information is available at this time.
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Reprieve is petitioning the Lahore High Court to demand redress from the Pakistani government, ministries and agencies for so far failing to uphold these rights.
Crofton Black: Can Pakistan Be Held Accountable for American Crimes? Crofton Black 2010
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While Senator Obama invokes “self reliance”, he calls on us to nurture our grievances and seek redress from a government powerful enough to give us all we want.
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While Senator Obama invokes “self reliance”, he calls on us to nurture our grievances and seek redress from a government powerful enough to give us all we want.
Stromata Blog: 2008
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I've also read the sequel, Itsuka, but it focuses mainly on them trying to get official redress from the government so it was historically interesting as a Canadian but a bit dry I thought.
Obasan by Joy Kogawa 2007
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If you cut off money (McCain-Feingold), then the mechanism of redress is removed.
Sound Politics: The logical extension of publicly financed campaigns 2006
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synonyms (135)
Words with the same meaning
- amend
- amendment
- amends
- annul
- atone
- atone for
- atonement
- balancing
- blood money
- cancel out
- commutation
- compensate
- compensation
- composition
- compromise
- consideration
- correct
- correction
- counteract
- counteraction
- counterbalancing
- countercheck
- damages
- emend
- expiate
- expiation
- expiatory offering
- fixing
- frustrate
- get satisfaction
- give satisfaction
- guerdon
- honorarium
- indemnification
- indemnify
- indemnity
- kick back
- lex talionis
- live down
- make all square
- make amends
- make compensation
- make good
- make matters up
- make reparation
- make requital
- make restitution
- make retribution
- make right
- make up for
- make up to
- making amends
- making good
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- meed
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- negate
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- offsetting
- overhaul
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- pay
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- pay reparations
- pay the forfeit
- pay the penalty
- paying back
- peace offering
- piaculum
- price
- propitiate
- propitiation
- put right
- put straight
- put to rights
- quit
- quittance
- reclamation
- recompense
- recoup
- rectification
- rectify
- redeem
- redemption
- redresser
- redressment
- reformation
- refund
- reimburse
- reimbursement
- relief
- relieve
- remedy
- remunerate
- remuneration
- repair
- repairing
- reparation
- repay
- repayment
- reprisal
- requital
- requite
- requitement
- restitution
- retaliation
- retribution
- return
- revenge
- revise
- reward
- right
- righting
- salvage
- satisfaction
- satisfy
- set right
- set straight
- set to rights
- set up
- smart money
- solatium
- square
- square it
- square things
- squaring
- substitution
- troubleshooting
- vengeance
- vindicate
- wergild
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Forms
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Words with the same terminal sound
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- suppress
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- unless
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- yes
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