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
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
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
We shall receive four hundred and sixty-three milliard francs, payable in thirty-six years, without counting the restitutions which will have been effected.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon
