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How to pronounce reparation in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms amends
Type of expiation, atonement, propitiation
Derivation repair
Type Words
Synonyms fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, repair
Type of improvement
Has types patching, upkeep, band aid, care, darning, maintenance, reconstruction, restitution, restoration, quick fix, quickie, quicky
Derivation repair
Type Words
Type of compensation
Derivation repair


an act for which there is no reparation.
Type Words
Type of compensation


Germany was unable to pay the reparations demanded after World War I.

Examples of reparation

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Chinese custom income and salt tax were enlisted as guarantee of the reparation.
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Some of the reparation due to Britain was later earmarked for a similar program.
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When we recognize we've offended God seriously, we repent and we make reparation.
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These fines may be paid to the state or to the victims as a form of reparation.
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Alignment of regimes for enforcement of reparation orders are also supported.
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The flow of reparation from Germany played a central role in French finances.
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She was also ordered to pay $30,000 reparation for the offending, from 1984 to 2009.
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Second, I wonder what opportunity exists to allow some practical reparation.
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Additionally, China was to pay Japan 200 million Kuping taels as reparation.
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More examples
  • Compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury; "an act for which there is no reparation"
  • (usually plural) compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors; "Germany was unable to pay the reparations demanded after World War I"
  • Repair: the act of putting something in working order again
  • Something done or paid in expiation of a wrong; "how can I make amends"
  • Reparation is an album by Reggae musician Eddy Grant. The title of this album is a call for restitution for the transatlantic slave trade .
  • In the Roman Catholic tradition, an Act of Reparation is a prayer or devotion with the intent to repair the "sins of others", e.g. for the repair of the sin of blasphemy, the sufferings of Jesus Christ or as Acts of Reparation to the Virgin Mary. ...
  • In jurisprudence, reparation is replenishment of a previously inflicted loss by the criminal to the victim. Monetary restitution is a common form of reparation. ...
  • A payment of time, effort or money to undo past transgression(s); The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway
  • (Reparations) Compensation or repayment