redress

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To set right; remedy or rectify.
2. v. To make amends to.
3. v. To make amends for. See Synonyms at correct.
4. v. To adjust (a balance, for example).
5. n. Satisfaction for wrong or injury; reparation. See Synonyms at reparation.
6. n. Correction or reformation.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To set up or upright; make erect; reërect.
2. To set right again; restore; amend; mend.
3. To put right, as a wrong; remedy; repair, relieve against, as an injury: as, to redress injuries; to redress grievances. See redress, n., 2.
4. To relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; bestow relief upon; compensate; make amends to.
5. To rise again; reërect one's self.
6. n. A setting right again; a putting into proper order; amendment; reformation.
7. 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.
8. n. Synonyms Relief, amends, compensation.
9. To dress again, in any sense: as, to redress furniture or leather; to redress a wound.

Wiktionary

1. v. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
2. v. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
3. v. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
4. v. To put upright again; to restore.
5. v. To dress again.
6. v. To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
7. n. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
8. n. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or oppression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
9. n. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
10. n. The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To dress again.
2. v. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
3. v. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
4. v. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
5. n. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
6. n. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; ; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
7. n. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
2. v. make reparations or amends for
3. n. a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury