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redress

[ noun ree-dres, ri-dres; verb ri-dres ]

noun

  1. the setting right of what is wrong:

    redress of abuses.

    Synonyms: atonement, remedy, restoration

  2. relief from wrong or injury.
  3. compensation or satisfaction for a wrong or injury.


verb (used with object)

  1. to set right; remedy or repair (wrongs, injuries, etc.).
  2. to correct or reform (abuses, evils, etc.).

    Synonyms: adjust, rectify, right, emend, mend, amend

  3. to remedy or relieve (suffering, want, etc.).

    Synonyms: ease

  4. to adjust evenly again, as a balance.

redress

/ rɪˈdrɛs /

verb

  1. to put right (a wrong), esp by compensation; make reparation for

    to redress a grievance

  2. to correct or adjust (esp in the phrase redress the balance )
  3. to make compensation to (a person) for a wrong
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. the act or an instance of setting right a wrong; remedy or cure

    to seek redress of grievances

  2. compensation, amends, or reparation for a wrong, injury, etc
  3. relief from poverty or want
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • reˈdressable, adjective
  • reˈdresser, noun
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Other Words From

  • re·dressa·ble re·dressi·ble adjective
  • re·dresser re·dressor noun
  • unre·dressa·ble adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of redress1

First recorded in 1275–1325; (verb) Middle English redressen, from Middle French redresser, Old French redrecier, equivalent to re- re- + drecier “to straighten” ( dress ); (noun) Middle English, from Anglo-French redresse, redresce, derivative of the verb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of redress1

C14: from Old French redrecier to set up again, from re- + drecier to straighten; see dress
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Synonym Study

Redress, reparation, restitution suggest making amends or giving indemnification for a wrong. Redress may refer either to the act of setting right an unjust situation (as by some power), or to satisfaction sought or gained for a wrong suffered: the redress of grievances. Reparation means compensation or satisfaction for a wrong or loss inflicted. The word may have the moral idea of amends: to make reparation for one's neglect; but more frequently it refers to financial compensation (which is asked for, rather than given): the reparations demanded of the aggressor nations. Restitution means literally the restoration of what has been taken from the lawful owner: He demanded restitution of his land; it may also refer to restoring the equivalent of what has been taken: They made him restitution for his land.
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Example Sentences

Gains from stock transfers and dividends are taxed at a flat rate of 20%, which Kishida has criticized as a source of inequality and in need of redress, but income tax is already peaking at 55%.

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One is better use of class or group actions, otherwise known as collective redress actions.

We will not rest until the women who suffered medical abuse at Irwin receive a measure of redress and compensation.

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By their rationale, any redress from racial injustices visited upon those persons, including slavery, should be the obligation of the former colonizers in those lands, not the government of the United States.

That leaves civil lawsuits as victims’ primary route for seeking legal redress and financial compensation when a police encounter goes wrong.

So, what kind of redress might work best for this specific expression of Sunni marginalization and dispossession?

But it stops short of advancing economic redress and opportunity.

Parents of children with disabilities should not face a unique burden to redress their wrongs.

The office should not be able to treat a matter of such importance with such negligence without any redress.

Increased male enrollment in clinical trials might redress another issue, too: awareness.

The party seeking redress, must have been deceived, and also injured by the deceit in order to recover.

It is true that the damages one may recover, however great, may be an inadequate redress, yet it is the best the law can do.

Another injury for which the law furnishes redress is that affecting reputation and character.

Some rioting followed on the rejection of the bill, and the masters promised redress, but soon broke their word.

While every other colony was bidding defiance to Britain, this alone submissively applied to her for redress of grievances.

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