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Meaning redress meaning

What does redress mean?

redress

— verb (= right) make reparations or amends for right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust — noun (= damages) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury — noun act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

Synonyms redress synonyms

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redress English » English

remedy reparation indemnity indemnification correct compensation compensate amends recompense indemnify damages rectify amend straighten right restitution repair remuneration reimbursement reimburse correction adjust set aright retrieve reparations remove remediation reform rectification recondition fix expiate benefit atone amendment straighten out slay shortcut set right satisfaction retrim retrieval repay removal relief rehabilitation rehabilitate refund reformation recoupment

Topics redress topics

What do people use redress to talk about?
Social behavior Law Punish

Atone, restitution

Conjugation redress conjugation

How do you conjugate redress?

redress · verb

Examples redress examples

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For redress of grievances?
All official avenues of redress have been sealed.
Use the British fighting man to redress the balance of trade.
I would redress the balance.
He says he's awfully sorry, but he needs at least a day to redress the set.
We need to redress our wounds, help our people, rebuild our cities.
We kill 400 cows a week and to redress the balance, we'll be slaughtering one member of staff every six weeks.
But it is not too late for you to redress the damage you have done.
Redress being granted as a matter of grace.
But we should be helping him redress his wrongs.
He demands redress for the affront of his daughter, or, he will go to war.
But anyone is violating the regulations, justice will redress.
I'm attempting to redress that balance.
She needs to know how to redress her sutures, but then she can be discharged.
You renounce in perpetuity, all redress.
This House demands redress for grievances.
This is the Committee for National Redress.
Whatever your sin, however great your offense, try to redress it.
The first thing a woman does with a new boyfriend is redress him.
I'm attempting to redress that balance. It is my challenge.
You'll redress the balance and fit in!
You sought to redress that balance by taking the Ori ship.
Sir, an appeal to His Majesty to redress many of the terrible and scandalous abuses of the Church.
He's getting his redress.
You found me different and now. now you'd like to. sort of redress.
I ask your permission to let me redress my wrong.
A citizen seeking redress of the Petition of Right. -.and the demurrer thereto.
My heart goes out to her. But anyone is violating the regulations, justice will redress.
I should tell you, Mr. Wolcott, I have seen men in this very camp, feeling themselves victimized, seek redress in fashions I thought imprudent.
Sir, an appeal to his majesty to redress many of the terrible and scandalous abuses of the church.
No, I need you to redress the mannequins.
No doubt the same ship which carries forth our list of grievances will bring back their redress.

News and current affairs

This and numerous other resolutions seeking redress for injustices toward Palestinians have been ignored by the US.
A Supreme Court dominated by conservative factions has selected judges and prosecutors, and Afghans have little legal redress in a system that allows local commanders, who hold sway over the judiciary, to act with impunity.
But it is to be hoped that the West's legal systems will provide an alternative recourse, one that will not only partially redress past injustices, but provide incentives for corporations to think twice before profiting from brutal regimes in the future.
So its failure to press the United States to redress the mortgage-market vulnerabilities that precipitated the current financial crisis indicates that much remains to be done.
Instead of large-scale privatization, it might be better to limit state aid and give competitors legal recourse to seek redress if state aid distorts competition.
The need to redress that imbalance has become increasingly evident since the recent financial crisis, as banks' efforts to rebuild their capital bases (and meet stricter regulatory requirements) has led to credit rationing.
So there are good reasons to doubt that governments' and central banks' current actions will really redress the crisis.
We need to find ways to address the lack of a real freedom of expression for women in so many societies and, at the same, time to redress damage done to those victimized by female genital mutilation.
Energy wealth gives them a sense of unique opportunity, the conviction that time is playing in their favor, and that they can now redress the humiliations they have suffered from the outside world.
Indeed, they failed to redress the imbalances of earlier rounds of trade talks that had made the poorest regions of the world worse off.
These early reformers, among them Muhammad Abduh and Jamaleddin al-Afghani, did not ignite the mass mobilization they hoped for, and were not able to redress social ills through better implementation of religious prescriptions.
Moreover, Israel has failed to redress a dangerous imbalance: however creative its economy may be, the burden of military expenditure is undermining its investment in education and scientific research.
Ambitious proposals to redress it, such as a Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism (SDRM) housed at the International Monetary Fund, have always run into political roadblocks.
With a new government in power, the chief's enemies seized the opportunity to redress the wrong, providing a reminder of the perils of prior efforts to de-tribalize Africa.
Still, the Court should not hesitate to act outside Africa when mass atrocities demand redress.
Yet it would be dangerous to redress past imbalances solely at the expense of traditional beneficiaries, especially because they remain powerful enough to derail the peace process.
That might very well happen if America's next president fails to redress the financial and economic threats facing his country, and thus the rest of the world.
Yam's retirement presents an opportunity for Hong Kong's government to redress a major issue of governance.
Indeed, to get into the Great Power maritime game, China needs Gwadar to redress its main weakness - the absence of a naval anchor in the Indian Ocean region, where it plans to have an important military presence.
He managed to redress the balance of power with Israel and the United States by mobilizing the vast support that the Palestinian cause elicits in the international community.
In countries like the US, where the middle class has reaped few of the benefits of globalization in the last quarter-century, trade policy will be under severe pressure to provide some redress.
It is time to redress that balance, or Soros's gloomy prognosis may become reality.

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