reparative

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My question: Is it too late for that kind of reparative work, economically, and is that the appropriate place for reparative economic work to take place?

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  1. adjective Tending to repair.
  2. adjective Relating to or of the nature of reparations.

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  • The first one concerns his attitude about reparative, or gender affirmative, therapy being harmful. —  Anglican Mainstream
  • He said they would likely face "reparative" not "punitive" sentences for what amounts to a misdemeanor. —  RutlandHerald.com
  • While the title describes what the authors meant to show - how clients describe the benefits of reparative therapy - the report itself actually illustrates something very different: the ex-gay movement's remarkable ability to instill an almost robot-like parroting of ex-gay rhetoric among their clients. —  Box Turtle Bulletin
  • One who can lay out a plan to guarantee the political freedom of Israelis and addresses the Israeli fear of being politically overwhelmed by the obvious shifting demography which must be wed to reparative justice for the Palestinians; equal human rights and the honoring of international law. —  Countercurrents.org
  • Q: When is reparative therapy not reparative therapy? —  The Bilerico Project
 

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  1. =Spanish reparativo, from Middle Latin *reparativus, from Latin reparare, repair: see repair.
 

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/rəˈpærətɪv/
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