to redress
17
7.7
- verb
- /rɪˈdrɛs/
- Formal
:
reparar
- I'm attempting to redress that balance.
- redress the imbalance
- redress grievances
- redress injustice
What's your sense of where we're at now with redressing this crisis?
- What's your sense of where we're at now with redressing this crisis?
- Another way of dealing with in a democratic society is redressing social imbalances.
- So again, this is textual, but in order to diagnose and redress discrimination.
- So we should make an effort to redress that.
- So it's a justice that could never be redressed.
- The folks will talk about what are the systems, the processes happening within the communities that are evolving to help redress that question.
- And not only did they fail to redress his concern, they turned around and prosecuted him and prosecuted him for espionage.
Examples
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Preferential treatment is intended to redress prior wrongs visited upon them by the majority.
Academic text (1995) -
Mexico's social inequities can only be redressed through major efforts in education, health, housing, and combating poverty.
Academic text (1993) -
Will the legal systems act quickly to redress your needs?
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I have to redress the balance.
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Of course, our justice system is there to redress losses by individuals caused by others.
Blog text (5) -
What do we do to bring economic power back to the people to redress the concentration of wealth?
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Many efforts are underway to redress this lack of diversity.
Academic text (1996) -
Another way of dealing with in a democratic society is redressing social imbalances.
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However, Vietnam's Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources has moved quickly to redress this imbalance.
Academic text (1995) -
He hopes to redress the wrongs done to his family by seeking justice in court.
Synonyms
483
1.0
To make something right by fixing a mistake
102
4.2
To give money to someone for loss, injury or unpaid work
45
6.0
To fix something that is wrong and make things right
41
4.4
To put something back into an upright position
26
6.0
To get back money you lost, for example costs or an investment
1
7.4
To pay someone for loss, harm, or effort
Antonyms
How Remedied
53
3.9
483
1.0
- Formal
17
7.7
102
4.2
- US
∞
1.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Redress as a verb comes from re- 'again' plus dress 'to set straight', so to redress something is to 'set it right again' or to make amends for an unfair action.