REDRESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does redress mean?
• REDRESS (noun)
The noun REDRESS has 2 senses:
1. a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
2. act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
Familiarity information: REDRESS used as a noun is rare.
• REDRESS (verb)
The verb REDRESS has 1 sense:
1. make reparations or amends for
Familiarity information: REDRESS used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• REDRESS (noun)
Meaning:
A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
amends; damages; indemnification; restitution; redress; indemnity
Hypernyms ("redress" is a kind of...):
compensation (something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "redress"):
relief ((law) redress awarded by a court)
actual damages; compensatory damages; general damages ((law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated)
nominal damages ((law) a trivial sum (usually $1.00) awarded as recognition that a legal injury was sustained (as for technical violations of a contract))
exemplary damages; punitive damages; smart money ((law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct))
atonement; expiation; satisfaction (compensation for a wrong)
Meaning:
Act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
remediation; remedy; redress
Hypernyms ("redress" is a kind of...):
correction; rectification (the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "redress"):
salve (anything that remedies or heals or soothes)
• REDRESS (verb)
Meaning:
Make reparations or amends for
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
redress; right; correct; compensate
Context example:
right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust
Hypernyms (to "redress" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "redress"):
over-correct; overcompensate (make excessive corrections for fear of making an error)
aby; abye; atone; expiate (make amends for)
Sentence frames:
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