remedies

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of remedy.

   Traditional remedies for fever have been passed down through generations.

   The court offered several remedies to the wronged party, including damages.

   Note

   Every countable meaning of remedy can take this plural: herbal remedies for a cough, the remedies a court can grant a wronged party, and, in coinage, the remedies allowed in the weight or fineness of gold coins. The spelling follows the regular y-to-ies pattern, which also produces the present-tense verb. A preceding article or adjective usually signals the noun, as in the remedies or several remedies.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of remedy.

   Regular maintenance remedies most of the issues that plague older engines.

   The legislation remedies a gap that left many workers without protection.

   Note

   The verb form that pairs with a singular subject in the present tense. The verb is transitive, so it needs an object: a repair remedies a fault, and a sentence never ends on remedies alone. Plural subjects and modals take the base form instead, as in the rules remedy it or this will remedy it. The verb has no medical or legal meaning of its own. The field comes from its object.

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