Redress
Re`dress´ Pronunciation: r?`dr?s´
| v. t. | 1. | To dress again. |
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| 1. | To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise. | |
| 2. | To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from. | |
| 3. | To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon. | |
| n. | 1. | The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment. |
| 2. | A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; | |
| 3. | One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser. |
| Noun | 1. |  redress - a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury |
| 2. | redress - act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil Synonyms: remediation, remedy | |
| Verb | 1. | redress - make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust" |
REDRESS. The act of receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained. For the mode of obtaining redress, vide Remedies 1 Chit. Pr. Annal. Table.
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