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redress




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redress
     1. v. To put in order again; to set right; to revise.
     2. v. To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
     3. v. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
     4. v. (transitive, obsolete) To put upright again; to restore.
     5. n. The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.
     6. n. A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.
     7. n. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
     8. v. To dress again.
     9. v. (film) To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
     10. n. (film) The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

Example Sentences

It is also right and proper that families should seek legal redress when there has been negligence. 



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