redress
Short definition from Wiktionary
Verb
- To put in order again; to set right; to revise.
- To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
- To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
- To put upright again; to restore.
- To dress again.
- To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
Noun
- The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.
- A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.
- A possibility to set right, or a possibility to seek a remedy, for instance in court
- One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
- The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
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