re·dress /rɪˈdrɛs/
賠償,救濟,矯正(vt.)糾正,賠償,救濟,重新穿衣,重新調整
Re·dress v. t. To dress again.
Re·dress v. t.
1. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise. [R.]
The common profit could she redress. --Chaucer.
In yonder spring of roses intermixed
With myrtle, find what to redress till noon. --Milton.
Your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared. --A. Hamilton.
2. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
Those wrongs, those bitter injuries, . . .
I doubt not but with honor to redress. --Shak.
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.”
Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? --Byron.
Re·dress, n.
1. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment. [R.]
Reformation of evil laws is commendable, but for us the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves. --Hooker.
2. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
A few may complain without reason; but there is occasion for redress when the cry is universal. --Davenant.
3. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
Fair majesty, the refuge and redress
Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress. --Dryden.
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redress
n 1: a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury [syn:
damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution]
2: act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil [syn: remedy,
remediation]
v : make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the
victims of the Holocaust" [syn: right, compensate, correct]
[ant: wrong]