redress | ||
1. | [ noun ] (accounting,business) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | |
Synonyms: | amends indemnity indemnification restitution damages | |
Related terms: | compensation relief atonement punitive_damages nominal_damages actual_damages right | |
2. | [ verb ] make reparations or amends for | |
Synonyms: | correct compensate right | |
Examples: | "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust" |
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Related terms: | wrong change expiate over-correct compensate recompense right | |
3. | [ noun ] act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil | |
Synonyms: | remedy remediation | |
Related terms: | correction salve rectify | |
Similar spelling: |
re-address retrogress readership retrace redirect retrousse |