REDRESS

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 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)

Sense 1

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; indemnity; redress; restitution

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

redress; remediation; remedy

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)

• REDRESS (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they redress    ... he / she / it redresses   
Past simple: redressed   
Past participle: redressed   
-ing form: redressing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make reparations or amends for

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

compensate; correct; redress; right

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:

Somebody ----s something
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)

 Context examples 

It is for others' good that I ask—to redress great wrong, and to lift much and terrible troubles—that may be more great than you can know.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

You may have to decide if you will stay with your present company and talk to the boss about redressing your commission structure or simply walk out and find another job.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He reluctantly departs, but his wrongs weigh upon his spirit, and by-and-by when an opportunity comes to redress them, he outwits Mamma by a shrewd bargain.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Good heavens!” cried Elizabeth; “but how could that be? How could his will be disregarded? Why did you not seek legal redress?”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But on you only had I any claim for pity and redress, and from you I determined to seek that justice which I vainly attempted to gain from any other being that wore the human form.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

No communication—a—until—Miss Wickfield—a—redress from wrongs inflicted by consummate scoundrel—HEEP! (I am quite convinced he could not have uttered three words, but for the amazing energy with which this word inspired him when he felt it coming.) Inviolable secret—a—from the whole world—a—no exceptions—this day week—a—at breakfast-time—a—everybody present—including aunt—a—and extremely friendly gentleman—to be at the hotel at Canterbury—a—where—Mrs. Micawber and myself—Auld Lang Syne in chorus—and—a—will expose intolerable ruffian—HEEP!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We all have our own feelings, Sir Charles; and you will permit me to say that a serving-man may resent an injury as much as a gentleman, though the redress of the duel is denied to him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then Van Helsing turned and said gravely; so gravely that I could not help feeling that he was in some way inspired, and was stating things outside himself:—It may be that you may have to bear that mark till God himself see fit, as He most surely shall, on the Judgment Day, to redress all wrongs of the earth and of His children that He has placed thereon.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But the interruption, and the disorder she was thrown into by the struggle outside, put an end to all softer ideas for the present, and kept my aunt indignantly declaiming to Mr. Dick about her determination to appeal for redress to the laws of her country, and to bring actions for trespass against the whole donkey proprietorship of Dover, until tea-time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)