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Redress Common

Redress has 7 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Verb

Definitions
Noun
1

a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

"The court ordered the company to pay redress to all passengers who were injured during the turbulence."

2

act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

"The company agreed to offer free repairs as redress for the defective product they shipped by mistake."

3

The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.

"The production designer worked late into the night to redress the Victorian parlor so it could convincingly double as the futuristic spaceship bridge in the sequel."

4

The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

Verb
1

make reparations or amends for

"right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"

2

To put in order again; to set right; to revise.

"After taking off his soaked swim trunks, he quickly redressed in dry clothes before heading inside."

3

To dress again.

Related Terms
Antonyms
wrong
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
compensation correction change
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
relief actual damages nominal damages punitive damages atonement salve over-correct expiate
Rhyming Words
ess 1ess ress ness tess hess kess wess jess fess yess sess less bess cess mess guess 1aess gless cress
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