Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To set right; remedy or rectify.
- v. To make amends to.
- v. To make amends for. See Synonyms at correct.
- v. To adjust (a balance, for example).
- n. Satisfaction for wrong or injury; reparation. See Synonyms at reparation.
- n. Correction or reformation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To set up or upright; make erect; reërect.
- To set right again; restore; amend; mend.
- To put right, as a wrong; remedy; repair, relieve against, as an injury: as, to redress injuries; to redress grievances. See redress, n., 2.
- To relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; bestow relief upon; compensate; make amends to.
- To rise again; reërect one's self.
- n. A setting right again; a putting into proper order; amendment; reformation.
- n. Deliverance from wrong, injury, or oppression; removal of grievances or oppressive burdens; undoing of wrong; reparation; indemnification. In its most general sense redress includes whatever relief can be afforded against injustice, whether by putting an end to it, by compensation in damages, by punishing the wrong-doer, or otherwise.
- n. Synonyms Relief, amends, compensation.
- To dress again, in any sense: as, to redress furniture or leather; to redress a wound.
Wiktionary
- v. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
- v. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
- v. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
- v. To put upright again; to restore.
- v. To dress again.
- v. To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
- n. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
- n. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or oppression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
- n. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
- n. The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To dress again.
- v. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
- v. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
- v. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
- n. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
- n. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; ; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
- n. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
WordNet 3.0
- n. act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
- v. make reparations or amends for
- n. a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Etymologies
- Middle English redressen, from Old French redrecier : re-, re- + drecier, to arrange; see dress.
Examples
“He seized upon the best apartments, and carried himself with so much haughtiness, that, provoked beyond endurance, I ordered my horse, and, accompanied by my honest courtiers, rode to Rouen to obtain redress from the governor.”
“Reprieve is petitioning the Lahore High Court to demand redress from the Pakistani government, ministries and agencies for so far failing to uphold these rights.”
The Huffington Post: Crofton Black: Can Pakistan Be Held Accountable For American Crimes?
“While he admits the £30,000 maximum for redress is not high, he believes most cases will relate to small amounts of money.”
The Guardian: Got a legal complaint? Now you can take it to the new legal ombudsman
“DB Cooper: P.S.: Because of fear of redress from the governments or any of their agencies, no other information is available at thistime.”
“P.S.: Because of fear of redress from the governments or any of their agencies, no other information is available at this time.”
“While Senator Obama invokes “self reliance”, he calls on us to nurture our grievances and seek redress from a government powerful enough to give us all we want.”
“I've also read the sequel, Itsuka, but it focuses mainly on them trying to get official redress from the government so it was historically interesting as a Canadian but a bit dry I thought.”
“If you cut off money (McCain-Feingold), then the mechanism of redress is removed.”
Sound Politics: The logical extension of publicly financed campaigns
“According to Shelley the agent of redress is "the nation," which "began to be weary of the continuance of such dangers and degradations," and its means is "the public voice," which "loudly demanded a free representation of the people" (236).”
“She presents the practice as a means by which women could seek redress from a legal system that otherwise excluded them to a large degree.”
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