redress

English

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Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman redrecier and Middle French redresser, from re- + drecier (“dress”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɹɪˈdɹɛs/
• (US) IPA: /ɹiˈdɹɛs/, /ɹəˈdɹɛs/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛs

Verb

redress (third-person singular simple present redresses, present participle redressing, simple past and past participle redressed)

1. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
2. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
3. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To put upright again; to restore.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:

     ‘Well,’ sayde Sir Palomydes, ‘than shall ye se how we shall redresse oure myghtes!’

Derived terms

• self-redress

Translations

To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise

• Maori: puretumu (mi)
• Russian: исправлять (ru) (ispravljatʹ)

To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from

• Maori: puretumu (mi)
• Russian: исправлять (ru) (ispravljatʹ), восстанавливать (ru) (vosstanavlivatʹ)

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

• Maori: puretumu (mi)
• Russian: компенсировать (ru) (kompensirovatʹ)

To put upright again; to restore

• Maori: puretumu (mi)
• Russian: поднимать (ru) (podnimatʹ)

Noun

redress (plural redresses)

1. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
2. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or oppression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
3. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

Translations

The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment

• Russian: исправление (ru) (ispravlenije)

A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or oppression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification

• Russian: восстановление (ru) (vosstanovlenije)

One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser

Etymology 2

re- +‎ dress.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˌɹiːˈdɹɛs/
• (US) IPA: /ɹiˈdɹɛs/

Verb

redress (third-person singular simple present redresses, present participle redressing, simple past and past participle redressed)

1. To dress again.
2. To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

Noun

redress (plural redresses)

1. The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

   This is a redress of the office set.

Anagrams

• dresser