redress

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English [edit]

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Etymology 1 [edit]

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

Pronunciation [edit]

  • (UK) IPA: /ɹɪˈdɹɛs/
  • (US) IPA: /ɹiˈdɹɛs/, /ɹəˈdɹɛs/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛs

Verb [edit]

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!’
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Noun [edit]

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.
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Etymology 2 [edit]

re- +‎ dress.

Pronunciation [edit]

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

Verb [edit]

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 [edit]

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.

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