reparation

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But a corporate crime must be expiated by corporate reparation, and it is that reparation which has already waited too long.

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  1. noun The act or process of repairing or the condition of being repaired.
  2. noun The act or process of making amends; expiation.
  3. noun Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
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  • A great number of your friends here fear that the interposition of United States in matter of indemnity and reparation which is a paramount question with European nations and only of indirect interest to us will solidify the opposition of England, France, Italy, and Belgium to a league of nations. —  WOODROW WILSON AS I KNOW HIM
  • But a corporate crime must be expiated by corporate reparation, and it is that reparation which has already waited too long. —  Dawn of All
  • But whatever I can do in atonement--reparation, that I have made up my mind to do. —  The Lamp of Fate
  • WOULD there yet perhaps be time for reparation?--reparation, that is, for the injury done his character; for the affront, he is quite ready to say, so stupidly put upon it and in which he has even himself had so clumsy a hand? —  The Ambassadors
  • "Has he not injured ME; injured beyond all power of reparation, her who is to be the partner of your life?" —  The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Complete
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  1. Middle English reparacion, from Old French, from Late Latin reparātiō, reparātiōn-, restoration, from Latin reparātus, past participle of reparāre, to repair; see repair1.

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  1. from Middle English repara-cioun, reparacyoun. from Old French reparacion, reparation, French réparation =Provencal Spanish reparacion =Portuguese reparação =Italian riparazione, from Late Latin reparatio(n-), a restoration, from Latin reparare, restore, repair: see repair.
 

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/rɛpəˈreɪʃən/
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