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redress::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | remediation, remedy |
| Type of | correction, rectification |
| Has types | salve |
redress::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | amends, damages, indemnification, indemnity, restitution |
| Type of | compensation |
| Has types | expiation, general damages, nominal damages, punitive damages, relief, satisfaction, smart money, actual damages, atonement, compensatory damages, exemplary damages |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | compensate, correct, right |
| Type of | modify, change, alter |
| Has types | expiate, over-correct, aby, overcompensate, abye, atone |
Examples of redress
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The ECB can simply issue the currency required to redress the fiscal imbalances.
From the guardian.co.uk
The National Ecosystems Assessment is a brave attempt to redress this imbalance.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The FOS's view is that banks are entitled to use PPI redress to reduce balances.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Last summer, Benfica rolled the dice and spent heavily to redress the imbalance.
From the online.wsj.com
Each takes its place in working to redress the problems that France faces today.
From the time.com
The advisers will be writing to Arch Cru clients to invite them to seek redress.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
The famed oilman-turned-hedge fund wizard finds relief and some redress Saturday.
From the usatoday.com
To redress the balance, South-East Asia needs to be seen to be very much cleaner.
From the economist.com
Efforts to redress the economic inequalities of apartheid have had mixed results.
From the independent.co.uk
- Damages: a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
- Right: make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
- Act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
- In film, a redress is the redecoration of an existing movie set, so that it can double for another set. This saves the trouble and expenses of constructing a second, new set, though they face the difficulty of doing it so the average viewer does not notice the same set is reused. ...
- Redress, or The Redress Trust is a human rights organisation based in London, England that helps survivors of torture to obtain justice and reparation, in the form of compensation, rehabilitation, official acknowledgement of the wrong and formal apologies. ...
- The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment; A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or oppression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification; One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser; To put in order again; to set ...
- To set right; to remedy; to compensate; to remove the causes of a grievance.
- To remedy, rectify, or to amend for a wrong done. Redress was used to describe the process for remedy for the internment and incarceration of Nikkei during World War II.
- (1) Relief; remedy. (2) What a lawyer should do if she ever has to ask "is this outfit too slutty for the office?"
