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REDRESS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

Synonyms:

redress; remediation; remedy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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)

Derivation:

redress (make reparations or amends for)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

Synonyms:

amends; damages; indemnification; indemnity; redress; restitution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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)

Derivation:

redress (make reparations or amends for)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make reparations or amends for

Example:

right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust

Synonyms:

compensate; correct; redress; right

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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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Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

redress (act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil)

redress (a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury)

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