Definitions of redress [ˈrɛdˌpoʊl]

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Definition of 'redress'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) redress
the setting right of what is morally wrong.

2.  redress
relief from wrong or injury.

3.  redress
compensation for such wrong or injury.

4. (v.t.) redress
to remedy (wrongs, injuries, etc.).

5.  redress
to correct (abuses, evils, etc.).

6.  redress
to relieve (suffering, want, etc.).

7.  redress
to adjust evenly again, as a balance.

Etymology: (1275–1325; (v.) ME < MF redresser, OF redrecier= re-re - + drecier to straighten (see dress ); (n.) ME < AF redresse, redresce, der. of the v.)

Definition of 'redress'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redress
a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

2. (verb) redress, remedy, remediation
act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

3. (verb) right, compensate, redress, correct
make reparations or amends for
"right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"

Definition of 'redress'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) redress
the act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment

2. (noun) redress
a setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification

3. (noun) redress
one who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser

4. (verb) redress
to dress again

5. (verb) redress
to put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise

6. (verb) redress
to set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from

7. (verb) redress
to make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon

Translation of 'redress'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to set right or compensate for The company offered the man a large sum of money to redress the harm that their product had done to him.
Afrikaans: herstel	Arabic: يُصْلِح، يُعَوِّض، يُنْصِ	Bulgarian: възстановявам
Brazilian: compensar	Czech: nahradit	German: wiedergutmachen
Danish: gøre god igen; afhjælpe	Greek: επανορθώνω, αποζημιώνω	Spanish: compensar
Estonian: hüvitama	Farsi: جبران کردن	Finnish: korjata
French: redresser	Hebrew: לְכָפֵר עַל-	Hindi: सही करना
Croatian: nadoknaditi, odštetiti	Hungarian: jóvátesz	Indonesian: mengganti kerugian
Icelandic: bæta fyrir	Italian: compensare, risarcire	Japanese: 直す
Korean: 보상하다	Lithuanian: atlyginti, kompensuoti	Latvian: kompensēt; atlīdzināt
Malay: mengganti-rugi	Dutch: compenseren	Norwegian: bøte på, erstatte
Polish: zadośćuczynić	Persian: جبران کردن	Pashto: سموول، چاره كول، اصلاح كو
Portuguese: compensar	Romanian: a redresa; a repara	Russian: исправлять; компенсироват
Slovak: nahradiť	Slovenian: odškodovati	Serbian: nadoknaditi
Swedish: rätta till, gottgöra	Thai: เงินชดเชย	Turkish: düzeltmek, telâfi etmek
Taiwanese: 矯正，賠償	Ukrainian: відшкодовувати, компенсув	Urdu: تدارک کرنا
Vietnamese: đền bù	Chinese: 纠正，赔偿
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