redress

CEFRC1

/ɹɪˈdɹɛs/

verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To correct a wrong or provide compensation for harm.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.

Examples

  • The law is meant to redress decades of discrimination against the country's ethnic minorities.

  • You have a right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ɹiˈdɹɛs/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.

  2. To put in order again; to set right; to revise.

  3. To put upright again; to restore.

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In context

  • [Magna Charta] [I]f we, our justiciary, our bailiffs, or any of our officers, shall in any circumstance fail in the performance of them, towards any person, or shall break through any of these articles of peace and security, and the offence be notified to fou...

  • Let us divide our labours; thou, where choice / Leads thee, or where most needs, whether to wind / The woodbine round this arbour, or direct / The clasping ivy where to climb; while I, / In yonder spring of roses intermixed / With myrtle, find what to redress...

  • Sir; When last in Philadelphia, you mentioned to me your wish that I should re-dress a certain paper, which you had prepared. As it is important, that a thing of this kind should be done with great care, and much at leisure, touched and retouched, I submit a...

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Origin

verb

From Middle English redressen, from Anglo-Norman radresser, redrescer, redrescier and Middle French redresser (“to stand (someone or something) up; to stand up again; to rebuild, to repair something damaged, to rectify, to restore; to obtain redress; to cure; (of hair) to stand on end; to revise a judgment”) (modern French redresser), from Old French redrecier (“to stand (someone or something) up; to stand up again”), from Old French re- (“again, once more”) (from Latin re-, from Proto-Italic *wre (“again”); further etymology uncertain) + Old French drechier, drecier, dresser (“to dress; to stand up”) (from Vulgar Latin *drēctiāre, a contracted form of *dīrēctiāre, from Latin dīrēctus (“str...