restitution
noun
reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused; indemnification.
restitutions
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pluralof restitution.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"It must be ensured that there is also a state-of-the-art procedure for future private restitutions."
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2024
Under the court settlement, precious metals dealer Argent Asset Group and First State Depository Company, which were both owned by Mr Higgins, were ordered to make restitutions of $112.7m and pay a penalty of $33m.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2023
Hicks, who spoke alongside Osanna at the restitution conference, has argued that anthropological museums today must now become the public spaces to debate problematic collections, while permitting also case-by-case restitutions.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023
It has also undertaken two high-profile restitutions from its colonial past: In 2005, Italy returned to Ethiopia the massive, 160-ton Axum Obelisk, which Mussolini ordered sent to Rome in 1937 after his troops overran Ethiopia.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023
"Ah!" replied the king, "as for restitutions to make, I owe nobody any individually; as for those that I owe the kingdom, I have hope in the mercy of God."
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Robert Black
