redress
[verb]
Synonyms:
- make amends for, compensate for, make up for
- put right, adjust, balance, correct, even up, rectify, regulate
[noun]
Synonyms:
- amends, atonement, compensation, payment, recompense, reparation

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Related Words: balancing, offsetting, retaliation, vengeance

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. re‧dress¹ /rɪˈdres/ verb [transitive] formal
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: redrecier, from drecier 'to make straight']
to correct something that is wrong or unfair:
Little could be done to redress the situation.
Affirmative action was meant to redress the balance (=make the situation fair) for minorities.

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II. re‧dress² /rɪˈdres $ ˈriːdres/ noun [uncountable] formal
money that someone pays you because they have caused you harm or damaged your property Synonym : compensation:
The only hope of redress is in a lawsuit.

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