Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - redress
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Redress
redress
(redresses, redressing, redressed) 1. If you redress something such as a wrong or a complaint, you do something to correct it or to improve things for the person who has been badly treated. (FORMAL) More and more victims turn to litigation to redress wrongs done to them. VERB: V n 2. If you redress the balance or the imbalance between two things that have become unfair or unequal, you make them fair and equal again. (FORMAL) So we’re trying to redress the balance and to give teachers a sense that both spoken and written language are equally important. VERB: V n 3. Redress is money that someone pays you because they have caused you harm or loss. (FORMAL) They are continuing their legal battle to seek some redress from the government. = compensation N-UNCOUNT
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I. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ~er to set upright, restore, ~, from re- + dresser to set straight — more at dress Date: 14th century 1. a. (1) to set right ; remedy looked to charity, not to legislation, to ~ social wrongs — W. R. Inge (2) to make up for ; compensate b. to remove the cause of (a grievance or complaint) c. to exact reparation for ; avenge 2. archaic a. to requite (a person) for a wrong or loss b. heal Synonyms: see correct • ~er noun II. noun Date: 14th century 1. a. relief from distress b. means or possibility of seeking a remedy without ~ 2. compensation for wrong or loss ; reparation 3. a. an act or instance of ~ing b. retribution, correction ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v.tr. 1 remedy or rectify (a wrong or grievance etc.). 2 readjust; set straight again. --n. 1 reparation for a wrong. 2 (foll. by of) the act or process of redressing (a grievance etc.). Phrases and idioms redress the balance restore equality. Derivatives redressable adj. redressal n. redresser n. (also redressor). Etymology: ME f. OF redresse(r), redrecier (as RE-, DRESS) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. исправление; восстановление 2. преим. юр. возмещение, удовлетворение, сатисфакция 3. исправлять; восстанавливать to redress the balance —- восстановить равновесие to redress the balances —- выверять весы 4. возмещать, компенсировать; юр. также возмещать ущерб to redress a wrong —- загладить обиду 5. эл. выпрямлять 6. ав. выравнивать (самолет в полете) 7. театр. давать (пьесу) в новых костюмах ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) исправление; восстановление 2) возмещение, удовлетворение 2. v. 1) исправлять; восстанавливать; to redress the balance - восстанавливать равновесие 2) возмещать, компенсировать; - redress a wrong 3) radio выпрямлять 4) выравнивать (самолет в полете) REDRESS a wrong заглаживать обиду ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 v formal 1 to correct something that is wrong or unfair (redressing the racial inequalities of society today) 2 redress the balance to make a situation fair or equal when it has been unfair or unequal (If one species breeds too much, the theory says a new epidemic will arise to redress the balance.) ~2 n formal money that someone pays you because they have caused you harm, or damaged your property; compensation (1) (The only hope of redress is in a lawsuit.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- early 14c., from O.Fr. redrecier, from re- "again" + drecier "to straighten, arrange." Formerly used in many more senses than currently. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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