remedy
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈrɛmɪdi/
- The teacher implemented a simple remedy to improve the students' grades.
- offer a remedy
- provide a remedy
- serve as a remedy
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Watch on YouTubeMore specifically, is government the cause or the remedy for our present ills?
- More specifically, is government the cause or the remedy for our present ills?
- So this, this compassion is actually a remedy.
- White people are seen as being a problem and A and a problem for whom a remedy must be found.
- It just becomes this horrible storm and women are like what happened to me and what's the remedy?
- A relief or the remedy for a bottleneck situation is to create a streamlined pipeline.
- In truth, though, none of these remedies would address the fundamental monopoly power these firms hold with the network effect of each of their platforms.
- And they were simple remedies to tough solutions.
- So those are those remedy of, of reasoning.
- We're in the freest, most prosperous, greatest potential for the remedy of any particular problem.
Examples
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At any rate, the best remedy when something comes between a couple is surely patience.
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Well, I've got just the remedy for that.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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But the great remedy to that is to just keep making work.
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And the only remedy that I can see is to strike back and to strike now!
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Then, it's up to the state legislature to fashion a remedy.
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More specifically, is government the cause or the remedy for our present ills?
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Whatever's going to be the remedy for this, I have to do.
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But there is an alternative remedy for this theft and injustice.
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The only sensible remedy in those cases is to exclude those populations from the count.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
183
1.0
An action that makes something work again
168
2.7
A change that fixes a mistake in a document or report
146
3.7
Solving a problem or ending a disagreement
34
7.7
A decision by a court that gives money or protection
25
6.8
Giving money or help to make up for a wrong
15
7.6
An action or money that corrects a wrong
8
6.3
The process of fixing a problem so something works properly
5
3.9
Something given or done that makes a person feel their complaint is solved
3
5.7
Something used to fix a problem, like a device or action
1
7.4
Fixing something that is wrong after a mistake
1
3.7
A simple, trusted way to help with a problem
1
8.2
An action that fixes a wrong by giving help or money to the person harmed
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Etymology
Remedy originally meant 'heal again', so as a noun it can also mean an action that puts a bad situation right. Think of a remedy as something that 'makes well again', which is why it describes a way to correct a mistake or fault.