Origin: Latin suffix -tion
Reparation has 5 different meanings across 1 category:
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"
A payment of time, effort or money to compensate for past transgression(s).