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Redress

Definitions: Redress

Redress

Noun

1. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury.

2. Act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil.

Verb

1. Make reparations or amends for; "right a wrong".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "redress" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Redress

DomainDefinitions

Satire

REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction. Among the Anglo-Saxon a subject conceiving himself wronged by the king was permitted, on proving his injury, to beat a brazen image of the royal offender with a switch that was afterward applied to his own naked back. The latter rite was performed by the public hangman, and it assured moderation in the plaintiff's choice of a switch. Source: Devil's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Redress

Synonyms: amends (n), damages (n), indemnification (n), indemnity (n), remediation (n), remedy (n), restitution (n), compensate (v), correct (v), right (v). (additional references)
Antonym: wrong (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Redress

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Atonement

Noun: atonement, reparation; compromise, composition; compensation; quittance, quits; expiation, redemption, reclamation, conciliation, propitiation; indemnification, redress.

Remedy

Noun: remedy, help, cure, redress; medicine, medicament; diagnosis, medical examination; medical treatment; surgery; preventive medicine.

Restoration

Redress, retrieval, reclamation, recovery; convalescence; resumption, resumption; sanativeness.

Redress, recure; cure, heal, remedy, doctor, physic, medicate; break of; bring round, set on one's legs.

Reward

Indemnity, indemnification; quittance; compensation; reparation, redress, satisfaction; reckoning, acknowledgment, requital, amends, sop; atonement, retribution; consideration, return, quid pro quo.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Redress

English words defined with "redress": Action on the case, affirmative actionCivil actionfreedom of assemblyirremediablejustice of the peacepetitionerRedressal, Redressive, Redressless, Redressment, relief, relief valve, Remedy of the mintsuer. (references)
Specialty definitions using "redress": Jacques Bonhommeredress life. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Redress

DomainTitle

Books

  • Born in Seattle: The Campaign for Japanese American Redress (The Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies) (reference)

  • Breaking the Silence: Redress and Japanese American Ethnicity (Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) (reference)

  • Chemical Contamination and Its Victims: Medical Remedies Legal Redress and Public Policy (reference)

  • Japanese Americans: From Relocation to Redress (reference)

  • Mormon Redress Petitions (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Familiar Quotations: Redress

AuthorQuotation

Captain J. G. Stedman

Old England liberty -- to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress.

William Shakespeare

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Redress

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

And if we shall not have corrected the transgression (or, in the event of our being out of the realm, if our justiciar shall not have corrected it) within forty days, reckoning from the time it has been intimated to us (or to our justiciar, if we should be out of the realm), the four barons aforesaid shall refer that matter to the rest of the five and twenty barons, and those five and twenty barons shall, together with the community of the whole realm, distrain and distress us in all possible ways, namely, by seizing our castles, lands, possessions, and in any other way they can, until redress has been obtained as they deem fit, saving harmless our own person, and the persons of our queen and children; and when redress has been obtained, they shall resume their old relations towards us. (reference)

John Locke

1690

And this puts men out of a state of nature into that of a common-wealth, by setting up a judge on earth, with authority to determine all the controversies, and redress the injuries that may happen to any member of the commonwealth; which judge is the legislative, or magistrates appointed by it. (Second Treatise of Government)

US Declaration of Independence

1776

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. (reference)

US Bill of Rights

1795

Amendment I. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

At the request of the national of an Allied or Associated Power, the redress may, whenever possible, be effected by the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal directing the replacement of the parties in the position occupied by them before the judgment was given by the German court. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Redress

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The Unfair Competition Law extends IPR protection to trade redress. (references)

Another important objective is to help employment prospects of persons previously disadvantaged by unfair discrimination and to redress those disadvantages through training and education. (references)

To partially redress the problem, a process of rail rejuvenation has started by franchising the principal routes to competing private companies, and rail freight operations have been sold off to a private sector operator. (references)

Civil Liberties

Fiji

Occasional detentions at the airport occur, but the courts have ordered redress where warranted. (references)

Discrimination

Togo

The Constitution prohibits discrimination on the basis of ethnic group, regional or family origin, sex, religion, social or economic status, or personal, political, or other convictions; however, the Government does not provide effective redress for discrimination complaints. (references)

Economic History

Jamaica

It also sets out means of legal redress for violations of the right. (references)

Human Rights

Syria

Detainees have no legal redress for false arrest. (references)

Iran

It is difficult for women to obtain legal redress. (references)

Pakistan

Actions taken to redress police abuses often have mixed results. (references)

Indigenous People

Honduras

Failure to obtain legal redress frequently causes indigenous groups to attempt to regain land through invasions of private property, which usually provoke the authorities into retaliating forcefully. (references)

Minorities

Liberia

The lack of competent security forces and a fully functioning judiciary in these areas prevented many Mandingos from seeking redress. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

An interentity agreement negotiated under U.N. auspices allows the voluntary redeployment of officers across entity lines to redress ethnic imbalances. (references)

Political Economy

NETHERLANDS

Civil servants have other means of protection and redress. (references)

GHANA

IPR holders have access to local courts for redress of grievances. (references)

Sudan

Mechanisms for social redress, especially with respect to violence against women and children, are weak. (references)

Political Rights

Oman

Successful redress depends on the effectiveness of a patron's access to appropriate decisionmakers. (references)

Oman

Citizens have indirect access to senior officials through the traditional practice of petitioning their patrons, usually the local governor, for redress of grievances. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Typical topics raised in a majlis include complaints about bureaucratic delay or insensitivity, requests for personal redress or assistance, and criticism of particular acts of government affecting family welfare. (references)

Women

Korea

The law also provides for a public fund to support victims in seeking legal redress. (references)

Senegal

Police usually do not intervene in domestic disputes, and most persons are reluctant to go outside the family for redress. (references)

Syria

Battered women have the legal right to seek redress in court, but few do so because of the social stigma attached to such action. (references)

Worker Rights

Singapore

The Government allows complainants to seek legal redress. (references)

Belize

Effective redress is extremely difficult to obtain in such situations. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

Apart from the Labor Ministry, workers have few other places to seek redress. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Redress

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

James Madison

1809-1817The people shall not be restrained from peaceably assembling and consulting for their common good, nor from applying to the legislature by petitions, or remonstrances for redress of their grievances.

James Monroe

1817-1825Such injuries have been received from persons acting under authority of both the parties, and for which redress has in most instances been withheld.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837In all cases representations have been or will be made, and as soon as their political affairs are in a settled position it is expected that our friendly remonstrances will be followed by adequate redress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Redress

"Redress" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 48.18% of the time. "Redress" is used about 413 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)48.18%19921,651
Noun (singular)48.18%19921,651
Lexical Verb (base form)3.63%1590,616
                    Total100.00%413N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Redress

Expressions using "redress": gain redress have no redress in law legal redress redress a play redress life seek redress for. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "redress": no-laws-no-redress.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Redress

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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redress

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Modern Translations: Redress

Language Translations for "redress"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rregulloj (accommodate, adjust, amend, arrange, attemper, clear up, compose, contrive, control, correct, debug, dispose, dispose of, do, fix up, model, modulate, order, patch up, rate, readjust, regularize, regulate, repair, set right, set the tune, settle, shape, Spruce, straighten, tidy up, trim), rivendosje (rearrangement, reclamation, reconstruction, recovery, re-establishment, rehabilitation, reinstatement, renewal, restoration, revival), rivendos (re establish, reclaim, recondition, reconstruct, recuperate, redintegrate, re-edify, reinstate, rejuvenate, renew, repair, replace, reproduce), ndreqim (reparation, upkeep), ndreq (adjust, arrange, change, clear, correct, dispose, dress, fix up, make amends, mend, piece, rectify, refit, reform, reinstate, remake, remedy, repair, revise, spruce up, Square, straighten, tidy up, touch up, tune up), korrigjim (amelioration, amendment, correction, emendation, equalization, readjustment, reclaim, reclamation, rectification, reform, reformation, repair, retrieval, vetting). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حول (ability, about, alien, around, be cross eyed, bleach, capricious, commit, concerning, deed, deliver, deter, divert, encode, hand down, hand over, make, metamorphose, power, process, refer, relocate, round, stop, switch, transfer, transmute, transpose, turn, whimsical, withdraw, work, year), ‏تدارك (obviate, rectify), ‏عدل (adjust, alter, amend, arrange, blue pencil, commute, equal, equate, erect, evenness, fairness, fashion, fix, justice, justness, mend, modify, modulate, overhaul, qualify, reason, recast, reclaim, rectify, regulate, remodel, reshuffle, retrofit, revise, right, righteousness, rightness, shuffle, straighten, temper), ‏إستدرك (obviate, recant), ‏إصلاح (betterment, correction, mediation, mend, pacification, pacifying, reclamation, reconcile, reconditioning, recovery, reform, reformation, rehabilitation, remedy, renovation, repair, reparation), ‏أصلح (amend, fix, mend, overhaul, pacify, piece, reclaim, recondition, rectify, redeem, refit, reform, rehabilitate, renovate, repair, retrieve, rig, right, see, set right). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

удовлетворение (amends, content, gratification, remedy, satisfaction), компенсирам (atone, compensate, countervail, indemnify, make amends, make good, make restitution, offset, recoup, redeem, repair, reward, set off), отстранявам причините за, обезщетение (amends, come back, compensation, cover, damages, indemnification, indemnity, offset, recompense, recoupment, reparation, satisfaction, solatium), облекчавам (allay, alleviate, ameliorate, appease, comfort, disburden, disembarrass, ease, facilitate, help, lighten, mitigate, palliate, relieve, soothe, sweeten, unburden, unload), нагласявам (focalize, instal, install, orchestrate, piece together, put up, rectify, set), поправяне (mending, recension, reclamation, rectification, reformation, reinstatement, renovation, reparing, retrieval, trimming, undoing), поправям (adjust, alter, amend, blue pencil, castigate, cobble, correct, do up, doctor, emend, fix, fix up, mend, polish, recast, recondition, rectify, redeem, remedy, renovate, repair, retouch, retrieve, revamp, revise, service, true, vamp). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

"偿 (Amends, Compensatory, Indemnities, indemnity, reparation). (various references)

   

Czech

  

upravit (adapt, adjust, alter, arrange, do up, dress, fix, modify, organize, readjust, regulate, sleek, tidy, touch up, treat, trim), opravení, odèinit (expiate, repair), napravit (correct, make good, manipulate, put right, reclaim, reform, remedy, repair, set, undo), náprava (axle, reformation, reparation, retrieval), náhrada (compensation, premium, recompense, recovery, reimbursement, restitution, substitute, substitution, surrogate). (various references)

   

Danish

  

rimelig genoprettelse af skaden (equitable redress for the harm), retsmidler og andre former for appel eller genoptagelse (means of redress and other forms of appeal), retsmiddel (means of redress), slibeskivestandtid (redress life), sikre en rimelig genoprettelse af skaden og tilstaa en passende erstatning (to ensure equitable redress for the harm and pay appropriate damages), saerlig appel eller genoptagelse (special means of redress), Kommissionen fastsaetter disse afgifter paa det niveau,som er noedvendigt for at genoprette ligevaegten (the Commission shall fix the amount of these charges at the level required to redress the balance), klageadgange (means of redress and other forms of appeal), erstatning for økonomisk skade (redress for damages to tangible property), erholde denne skadeserstatning (to obtain redress). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

rechtsmiddelen (means of redress and other forms of appeal), rechtsmiddel (legal practical ground put forward, means of redress), vergoeding van materiële schade (redress for damages to tangible property), standtijd (redress life), schadevergoeding (consequential damage, damages, indemnity, recompense for damage, redress for damages to tangible property), op een billijke wijze het nadeel herstellen en een rechtvaardige schadevergoeding toekennen (to ensure equitable redress for the harm and pay appropriate damages), op een billijke wijze het nadeel herstellen (equitable redress for the harm), deze schadelosstelling verkrijgen (to obtain redress), de Commissie bepaalt de hoogte van deze heffingen zodanig als nodig is om het evenwicht te herstellen (the Commission shall fix the amount of these charges at the level required to redress the balance), bijzondere rechtsmiddelen (special means of redress). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

فریادرسی , تصحیح (Amendment, Correction, Rectification), جبران کردن (Atone, Compensate, Gratify, Offset, Reciprocate, Recoup, Rectify, Reimburse, Remedy, Repair, Retrieve), جبران خسارت , التیام , دوباره پوشیدن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

korjata epäkohta (redress a grievance), hiomalaikan kestoaika (redress life). (various references)

   

French

  

redresser (rectify, reform, re-form), redressement (recovery, rectification, reform, relief, remedy, reversal), réparer (redeem, refit, renovate, repair, restore, retrieve). (various references)

   

German

  

regress (recourse, regress, right of recourse), wiederherstellen (cure, heal, re establish, rebuild, reconstitute, recover, remedy, renew, restore, to reconstitute, to reconstruct, to refit, to restore, undelete), wiedergutmachung (atonement, compensation, recompense, recovery, rectification, recuperation, reparation), wiedergutmachen (atone for, compensate, make good, put right, recompense, recover, rectify, recuperate, repair, reparable, retrieval, retrieve, to make up for), sühnen (atone, atone for, atonements, expiate), entschädigung (allowance, amends, compensation, indemnification, indemnity, recompense, recoupment, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, repayment, restitution, reward), beseitigung (clearance, deletion, disposal, elimination, removal, settling), beseitigen (clear away, dispense with, dispose of, do away with, eliminate, eliminating, get rid of, hammer out, lay, lull, make away with, remove, smooth out, to eliminate, to remove, unmade, unmake), bereinigung (adjustment, clearing up, garbage, resolving, settlement), bereinigen (clear up, hammer out, resolve, settle, wipe out), abhilfe (cure, interlocutory revision, rectification, remedial action, remedy), abhelfen (cure, rectify, remedy, supply, to remedy). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

επανόρθωση (cure, healing, reconstruction, rehabilitation, reparation, retrieval), επανορθώνω (make up, put right, rectify, remedy, retrieve), επανορθώ (reclaim, rectify, rehabilitate, retrieve, right), αποζημιώ (indemnify, recoup, reimburse), αποζημίωση (allocation, allowance, amends, benefit, bonus, compensation, compensation for, consequential damage, damages, indemnification, indemnity, pay, recompense, recoupment, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, restitution). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לפצות (compensate, make up, make up for, offset, recompense). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

orvoslás (cure, remedy). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

ganti rugi (back pay, compensation, indemnify). (various references)

   

Italian

  

risarcimento (after-culture, award, beating, beating up, blank-filling, compensation, damage, filling fail places, gapping, indemnity, infilling, overplanting, patching up, recompense, recruiting, refund, reimbursement, reinforcement planting, repair planting, reparation, replacement), riparazione (amends, atonement, blocking, corrective maintenance, elimination, fixing, keeping, maintenance, mend, mending, repair, repair after radiation effects, repairs, reparation, restitution, retrieval, servicing), riparare (finish, fix, make amends for, make up, mend, overhaul, patch up, patel, piece, protect, repair, retrieve, right, screen, shelter, shield), soddisfazione (appeasement, compensation, contentment, fulfillment, fulfilment, gratification, indulgence, pacification, pleasure, satisfaction). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

正す (to adjust, to amend, to correct, to redress, to reform, to straighten), 不正'矯める (to redress injustice). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

た す (to adjust, to amend, to ascertain, to ask a person about, to correct, to query, to redress, to reform, to straighten, to verify), ふせい'ためる (to redress injustice). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

배상 (Amends). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lhiasagh (amends, atonement, compensation, manure, recompense, reparation, reprisal, retribution, revisionary), kiartaghey (accommodate, accommodate arrange, adjust, adjusting, amend, correct, correct as mistake, correction, even out, fix, make, modification, modify, preparation, prepare, qualify, ready, rectification, setting, settle, settling, true), couyr (cure, help, relief, resort, resource). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

edressray

   

Portuguese

  

reparar (atone, Cooper, make up, mend, observe, recompense, recondition, refit, regard, remark, remedy, renovate, repair, restore, satisfy, touch upon), reparação (amends, atonement, blocking, indemnify, indemnity, mending, overhauling, propitiation, quittance, recompense, reconditioning, recoupment, recovery, refit, refitment, remedy, renewal, repair, reparation, restitution, satisfaction), remediar (correct, cure, fix up, help, obviate, remedy), remédio (cure, curing, drug, help, medical accessory, medicament, medicaster, medicine, pharmaceutical, physic, relief, remedy, salve), reforma (amendment, converting, pension, recast, reconstruction, refit, refitment, reform, reformation, regeneration, remaking, renovation, reorganization, retirement), emendar (amend, emend, rectify, revise, splice, to knot), emenda (amendment, converting, emendation, glue line, joining, patch, rectification, reformation, seam, splice, splicing), correção (accuracy, adjustment, converting, correction, emerald, politic, propriety, reclamation, rectification, reform, reformation, respectability, revision, sportsmanship), compensar (compensate, equalizer, even, indemnify, make up, make way, offset, pay, recoup, reimburse, unrein), compensação (amends, attitude control, clearing, compensation, consideration, equalisation, equalization, indemnification, indemnity, normal makeup, quid pro quo, quittance, ransom, recompense, remuneration, reparation, springing, trimming), aliviar (allay, alleviate, assuage, blunt, comfort, console, disburden, ease, lighten, palliate, relieve, salve, still, unburden), alívio (alleviation, assuagement, consolation, easement, mitigation, palliation, relief, riddance, solace). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

restabili (piece up, re establish, recover, recruit, redintegrate, rehabilitate, reinstate, reintroduce, reseat, reset, resettle, restore, retrieve), reparare (redemption, reparation, restoration, retrieval), repara (cobble, darn, doctor, fix, fix up, make amends for, make good, mend, overhaul, piece, readjust, reclaim, rectify, reduce, refit, renovate, repair, retrieve), reface (change, do over, do up, re establish, rebuild, recast, reclaim, recondition, reconstruct, recover, recruit, reform, remake, remodel, repair, restore, retread, retrieve), despãgubire (amends, compensation, consideration, indemnification, indemnity, recoupment, reimbursement, remedy, remuneration, reparation, restitution, retrieval, satisfaction, set off, vindictive damages), corectare (castigation, correction, improvement, rectification), corecta (castigate, correct, emend, improve, mend, read, reclaim, rectify, review, revise, right), compensaţie (amends, compensation, damage, drawback, indemnification, indemnity, offset, quittance, remedy, requital, restitution, retrieval, set off), ajutor (abettor, accommodation, accomplice, adjoint, adjunct, adjutancy, adjutant, adjuvant, adminicle, aid, ancillary, assistance, assistant, auxiliary, backer, backing, collaboration, contribution, co-operation, deputy, easement, fire, friend, furtherance, help, helper, helpfulness, helping, mate, means, ministrant, office, refuge, relief, remedy, rescue, salvation, saver, second, service, sos, staff, stand by, stead, succor, succour, support, supporter, sustainer, upholder), îndreptare (amendament, atonement, dressing, handbook, laying, relief, reparation), îndrepta (aim, align, amend, bend, better, cast, chasten, correct, direct, drive, guide, head for, improve, lead, mend, point at, reclaim, recover, redeem, reduce, reform, remedy, right, send, set, shape, steer, straighten, tend, train, unbend), îmbrãca din nou (reinvest). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

удовлетворять (content, gratify, meet, respond, satisfies, satisfy), восстановление (compensation, rebuilding, reclamation, reconstruction, recovery, re-creation, reduction, re-establishment, refreshment, refurbishment, rehabilitation, reinstatement, renewal, renovation, repair, reproduction, restitution, restoration, resurgence, retrieval), восстанавливать (back out, deoxidize, indispose, re establish, reactivate, reassure, rebuild, reclaim, reconstruct, recover, re-create, recuperate, redintegrate, reedify, reenable, re-enable, re-establish, refurbish, regain, reinstate, renew, renovate, revive, undelete, unremove), возмещение (atonement, compensation, indemnification, indemnity, offset, quittance, recoupment, recovery, refund, reimbursement, reparation, repayment, solatium), исправлять (amend, amending, correct, emend, fix, mend, re establish, readjust, reclaim, rectify, rectifying, redeem, red-short, remedy, repair, retrieve, revise), исправление (betterment, correction, emendation, feature update, feature updates, mending, reclaim, reclamation, rectification, reform, reformation, repair, retrieval). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

popravljanje (fixing, reclamation), popraviti (amend, chasten, correct, doctor, emend, fix, improve, mend, overhaul, recline, recondition, remedy, repair, straighten out), obeštetiti (compensate, indemnify, recompense, remunerate), obeštećenje (compensation, indemnification, indemnity, remuneration, reparation, solatium), ispraviti (amend, rectify, revise, set right, set straight, straighten, unbend, uncurl, untwist). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

reparar algo (atone, mend, piece), remedio (diagnosis, medicament, physic, remedy), remediar (cure, heal, remedy), rectificar (amend, correct, emend, hone, rectify, right), reajustar (readjust, reposition, reset, reshuffle), satisfacción (gratification, indulgence, relief, reparation, requital, satisfaction), desagraviar, derecho (bolt upright, canoness, claim, direct, directly, erect, face, face side, jurisdiction, law, legitimacy, onside, presumption, pretence, rectum, right, right side, standing, straight, straight ahead, title, upper side, upright), compensación (amends, balance, balancing, clear, clearance, clearing, compensation, equalisation, equalization, indemnification, indemnity, offset, quid pro quo, quittance, recoupment, reparation, requital, satisfaction, setoff, sop, springing, trade off, trim). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

gottgörelse (allowance, amenda, amends, atonement, compensation, credit, indemnification, indemnity, payment, recopense, reparation, satisfaction), gottgöra (amends, astone, atone for, compensate, condone, indemnify, indemnity, make good, make up, recompense, retrieve, satisfy). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

telâfi etmek (atone, atone for, compensate, make up, make up for, overcompensate, recoup, recover, recuperate, redeem, repair, repay, retrieve, right, undo), telâfi (amends, atonement, compensation, condonation, reparation, undoing), tazminat (amends, award, compensation, damages, guerdon, indemnification, indemnity, recompense, reparations, return), onarmak (debug, doctor, mend, patch up, refit, remedy, renovate, repair, restore, tinker up), karşılamak (answer, compensate, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, fulfil, fulfill, greet, make amends, meet, provide, provision, receive, recompense, recoup, satisfy, supply, take, welcome), düzeltmek (adjust, ameliorate, amend, arrange, better, clean up, correct, dub, emend, face-lift, fix, grade, grade up, haul up, heal, improve, justify, level, level off, level out, meliorate, mend, plane, planish, polish, polish up, reclaim, rectify, refine, reform, regenerate, remedy, reorganize, right, set aright, slick, smooth, smooth away, smooth down, smooth out, smooth over, Spruce, spruce up, Square, straighten, straighten out, tidy up, trim, try out, unbend, unscramble, upgrade), ödeme (atonement, clearance, conciliation, disbursement, discharge, inpayment, pay, payment, payoff, redemption, remuneration, rendering, repayment, satisfaction, settlement), çare (aid, antidote, curative, cure, egress, expedience, expediency, expedient, healer, help, medium, obviation, relief, remedy, resort, resource, shift, solution, way out), çözüm (answer, denouement, healer, help, key, out, remedy, resolution, shift, solution, way out). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

відшкодування (amends, consideration, indemnity, offset, quittance, recovery, refund, reimbursement, repayment, restitution), відшкодовувати (atone, compensate, offset, refund, reimburse, remedy, repay, restitute, supply), виправляти (amend, beet, better, castigate, chasten, correct, emend, oversee, re establish, reclaim, rectify, reform, remedy, retrieve, touch up), виправлення (amendment, betterment, castigation, correction, emendation, reclaim, reclamation, rectification, reform, reformation, reparation, retrieval). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự sửa lại (alteration, relief), sự b"i thường (consideration, indemnification). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Redress

Derivations

Words beginning with "redress": redressed, redresser, redressers, redresses, redressing. (additional references)

Words containing "redress": unredressed. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Redress" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Medresse, Redcrosse, rederes, rederess, redires, redries, redross, Reedgrass. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Redress"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "redress" (pronounced rudre"s or rē"dres)
4-d r e" sdress, undress.
3-r e" saggress, cress, depress, digress, distress, egress, ers, express, fluoresce, impress, oppress, press, repress, stress, suppress, transgress, tress.
3-r e scompress, duress, empress, regress.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Redress

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dresser.

Words within the letters "d-e-e-r-r-s-s"

-1 letter: seders.

-2 letters: deers, drees, dress, erred, erses, redes, reeds, seder, seeds, seers, sered, serer, seres.

-3 letters: deer, dees, dere, dree, errs, eses, rede, reds, reed, rees, seed, seer, sees, sere, sers.

-4 letters: dee, eds, ere, err, ers, ess, red, ree, res, see, ser.

-5 letters: de, ed, er, es, re.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-r-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: derrises, desirers, dressers, dressier, residers.

 

+2 letters: addresser, depressor, derepress, descriers, deserters, deservers, destriers, disperser, endorsers, murderess, orderless, overdress, presiders, pressured, readdress, reassured, recrossed, redhorses, redressed, redresser, redresses, regressed, repressed, reredoses, resolders, respreads, riderless, shredders, solderers, spreaders, sunderers.

 

+3 letters: addressers, crossbreed, defrosters, degreasers, depressors, describers, despairers, destroyers, directress, discerners, dispersers, dreariness, dressmaker, driverless, fortressed, hydroseres, misrenders, persuaders, progressed, reasserted, reassorted, redbreasts, redressers, redressing, regardless, rescinders, responders, restressed, riversides, rudderless, serenaders, slanderers, superseder, surrenders, wardresses.

 

+4 letters: adversaries, advertisers, arthrodeses, crossbreeds, derepressed, derepresses, desecraters, desecrators, discoverers, dressmakers, embarrassed, greenswards, hairdresser, hurriedness, murderesses, newsreaders, orderliness, overdressed, overdresses, overspreads, overstrides, predecessor, pressurised, pressurized, prestressed, readdressed, readdresses, readerships, reconsiders, recrudesces, redescribes, rediscovers, reexpressed, reprocessed, retiredness, rinderpests, serriedness, shadberries, squanderers, superorders, superseders, supersedure, underscores, understeers, unpressured, unredressed, unrepressed, uredospores, verdigrises, vinedresser.

 

+5 letters: cerebrosides, deerstalkers, depressurize, derepressing, derepression, descramblers, directresses, disremembers, diversifiers, drearinesses, drysalteries, geopressured, haberdashers, hairdressers, horridnesses, hydrospheres, intercrossed, interspersed, irredentisms, irredentists, irregardless, masqueraders, misericordes, overasserted, overdressing, overresponds, overspenders, overstressed, predecessors, preparedness, preprocessed, readdressing, regardlessly, reservedness, retrogressed, sclerodermas, screwdrivers, shareholders, sheepherders, shirtdresses, superhardens, superscribed, supersedures, sweaterdress, torridnesses, transgressed, trendsetters, underbrushes, understories, urediospores, vinedressers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Redress


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 64 72 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    -..    .-.    .    ...    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01100100 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#100 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0064 0072 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52717084718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Quotations: Historic
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Quotations: Speeches
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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