'Redress' definitions:

Definition of 'redress'

noun

A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury [syn: damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redress]

noun

Act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil [syn: redress, remedy, remediation]

verb

Make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust" [syn: right, compensate, redress, correct] [ant: wrong]

From: GCIDE

Redress \Re*dress"\ (r[=e]*dr[e^]s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + dress.] To dress again. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Redress \Re*dress"\ (r[-e]*dr[e^]s"), v. t. [F. redresser to straighten; pref. re- re- + dresser to raise, arrange. See Dress.]
1. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise. [R.] [1913 Webster]
The common profit could she redress. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
In yonder spring of roses intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared. --A. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]
2. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from. [1913 Webster]
Those wrongs, those bitter injuries, . . . I doubt not but with honor to redress. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
3. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon. "'T is thine, O king! the afflicted to redress." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? --Byron. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Redress \Re*dress"\, n.
1. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment. [R.] [1913 Webster]
Reformation of evil laws is commendable, but for us the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
2. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
A few may complain without reason; but there is occasion for redress when the cry is universal. --Davenant. [1913 Webster]
3. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser. [1913 Webster]
Fair majesty, the refuge and redress Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]