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Noun: redress  ri'dres
  1. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
    - damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redressal [Asia]
     
  2. Act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
    - remedy, remediation, redressal [Asia]
Verb: redress  ri'dres
  1. Make reparations or amends for
    "redress a wrong done to the victims of the Holocaust";
    - right, compensate, correct

Derived forms: redressing, redresses, redressed

Type of: alter, change, compensation, correction, modify, rectification

Antonym: wrong

Encyclopedia: Redress