redressable
- adjective
- /rɪˈdrɛsəbl/
- Formal
:
reparable
- Finally, the injury must be redressable by a favorable court decision.
Examples
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Her grievances against the company are redressable through legal action to seek compensation.
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Wouldn't it be better to focus instead on trying to prevent identifiable, provable, and redressable transgressions against persons and their property by perpetrators of all kinds (including governments)?
Blog text (16) -
The tactics are redressable by simple majority votes in either house through the use of the discharge petition.
Academic text (1997) -
The court in 1970 created the standing test functioning today: to have standing, a party must suffer an injury in fact, which is linked to an agency action and redressable by judicial relief, and that injury is within the "zone of interests" protected by the statute the party seeks to enforce.
Academic text (1994) -
Shields argued that the defendants showed deliberate indifference to his needs, a violation of the Eighth Amendment ordinarily redressable as against state actors through section 1983.
Academic text (2017) -
Several common nursing facility practices may be redressable under the ADA in combination with or in lieu of other laws, such as the Nursing Home Reform Law of 1987 (also known as the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, or OBRA, the name of the law in which its provisions were included).
Academic text (1994) -
The issues with the contract are redressable if both parties agree to renegotiate the terms.
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The problem with the faulty item is redressable by returning it for a full refund.
Synonyms
9
2.7
Can be repaired or put right
3
4.8
Able to be fixed or made right
1
6.6
A problem that can be fixed
1
4.9
Able to be fixed
Able to be fixed or made right
Antonyms
How Redressable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Redressable comes from re- 'again' and redress 'to set right', so it means something that can be 'set right' again, often 'by the law'.