'Redress' definitions:
Definition of 'redress'
(from WordNet)
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]
Definition of 'Redress'
From: GCIDE
- Redress \Re*dress"\ (r[=e]*dr[e^]s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + dress.] To dress again. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Redress'
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]
Definition of 'Redress'
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]
Synonyms of 'redress'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- amend,
- amends,
- annul,
- atone,
- atone for,
- atonement,
- balancing,
- blood money,
- cancel out,
- commutation,
- compensate,
- compensation,
- composition,
- compromise,
- consideration,
- correct,
- correction,
- counteract,
- counteraction,
- counterbalancing,
- countercheck,
- damages,
- emend,
- expiate,
- expiation,
- expiatory offering,
- fixing,
- frustrate,
- get satisfaction,
- give satisfaction,
- guerdon,
- honorarium,
- indemnification,
- indemnify,
- indemnity,
- kick back,
- lex talionis,
- live down,
- make all square,
- make amends,
- make compensation,
- make good,
- make matters up,
- make reparation,
- make requital,
- make restitution,
- make retribution,
- make right,
- make up for,
- make up to,
- making amends,
- making good,
- making right,
- making up,
- meed,
- mending,
- negate,
- negative,
- offsetting,
- overhaul,
- overhauling,
- pay,
- pay back,
- pay damages,
- pay in kind,
- pay off,
- pay reparations,
- pay the forfeit,
- pay the penalty,
- paying back,
- peace offering,
- piaculum,
- price,
- propitiate,
- propitiation,
- put right,
- put straight,
- put to rights,
- quit,
- quittance,
- reclamation,
- recompense,
- recoup,
- rectification,
- rectify,
- redeem,
- redemption,
- refund,
- reimburse,
- reimbursement,
- remedy,
- remunerate,
- remuneration,
- repair,
- repairing,
- reparation,
- repay,
- repayment,
- reprisal,
- requital,
- requite,
- requitement,
- restitution,
- retaliation,
- retribution,
- return,
- revenge,
- reward,
- right,
- salvage,
- satisfaction,
- satisfy,
- set right,
- set straight,
- set to rights,
- set up,
- smart money,
- solatium,
- square,
- square it,
- square things,
- squaring,
- substitution,
- troubleshooting,
- vengeance,
- vindicate,
- wergild