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redress 音標拼音: [rɪdr'ɛs] [r'idrɛs] n. 賠償,救濟,矯正
vt. 糾正,賠償,救濟,重新穿衣,重新調整 賠償,救濟,矯正糾正,賠償,救濟,重新穿衣,重新調整 redress n 1: a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury [ synonym: { damages}, { amends}, { indemnity}, { indemnification}, { restitution}, { redress}] 2: act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil [ synonym: { redress}, { remedy}, { remediation}] v 1: make reparations or amends for; " right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust" [ synonym: { right}, { compensate}, { redress}, { correct}] [ ant: { wrong}] Redress \ Re* dress"\ ( r[= e]* dr[ e^] s"), v. t. [ Pref. re- dress.] To dress again. [ 1913 Webster]
Redress \ Re* dress"\ ( r[- e]* dr[ e^] s"), v. t. [ F. redresser to straighten; pref. re- re- dresser to raise, arrange. See { Dress.}] 1. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] The common profit could she redress. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] In yonder spring of roses intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared. -- A. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from. [ 1913 Webster] Those wrongs, those bitter injuries, . . . I doubt not but with honor to redress. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 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." -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? -- Byron. [ 1913 Webster]
Redress \ Re* dress"\, n. 1. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] Reformation of evil laws is commendable, but for us the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves. -- Hooker. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] A few may complain without reason; but there is occasion for redress when the cry is universal. -- Davenant. [ 1913 Webster] 3. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser. [ 1913 Webster] Fair majesty, the refuge and redress Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 127 Moby Thesaurus words for " redress": amend, amends, annul, atone, atone for, atonement, balancing, blood money, cancel out, commutation, compensate, compensation, composition, compromise, consideration, correct, correction, counteract, counteraction, counterbalancing, countercheck, damages, emend, expiate, expiation, expiatory offering, fixing, frustrate, get satisfaction, give satisfaction, guerdon, honorarium, indemnification, indemnify, indemnity, kick back, lex talionis, live down, make all square, make amends, make compensation, make good, make matters up, make reparation, make requital, make restitution, make retribution, make right, make up for, make up to, making amends, making good, making right, making up, meed, mending, negate, negative, offsetting, overhaul, overhauling, pay, pay back, pay damages, pay in kind, pay off, pay reparations, pay the forfeit, pay the penalty, paying back, peace offering, piaculum, price, propitiate, propitiation, put right, put straight, put to rights, quit, quittance, reclamation, recompense, recoup, rectification, rectify, redeem, redemption, refund, reimburse, reimbursement, remedy, remunerate, remuneration, repair, repairing, reparation, repay, repayment, reprisal, requital, requite, requitement, restitution, retaliation, retribution, return, revenge, reward, right, salvage, satisfaction, satisfy, set right, set straight, set to rights, set up, smart money, solatium, square, square it, square things, squaring, substitution, troubleshooting, vengeance, vindicate, wergild
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