Redress
WordNet

noun


(1)   Act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
(2)   A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

verb


(3)   Make reparations or amends for
"Right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
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Etymology 1


From and , from + .

Verb



  1. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
  2. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
  3. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
  4. To put upright again; to restore.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:
      ‘Well,’ sayde Sir Palomydes, ‘than shall ye se how we shall redresse oure myghtes!’

Noun



  1. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
  2. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or oppression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
  3. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

Verb



  1. To dress again.
  2. To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

Noun



  1. The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
    This is a redress of the office set.
 
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