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"
WiktionaryText
Etymology 1
From and , from + .
Verb
- To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
- To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
- To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
- 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!’
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:
Noun
- The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
- A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or oppression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
- One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
Verb
- To dress again.
- To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
Noun
- The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
- This is a redress of the office set.