redress

/rɪˈdrɛs/

/ˈrɪdrɛs/

Other forms: redressed; redressing; redresses

The verb redress is used when you are supposed to fix a problem and make amends. You want your parents to redress the fact that you don't have a pet. Your parents offer to get a hamster, but instead, you say you want a monkey.

Redress can be used as both a noun and a verb. In the noun form, it is the compensation for setting something right. As a verb it means to correct, right a wrong, or make restitution for something. The union organizers wanted the company to redress the fact that workers weren't getting lunch breaks.

Definitions of redress

1. verb

   make reparations or amends for
   synonyms: compensate, correct, right

   types:

   over-correct, overcompensate

   make excessive corrections for fear of making an error

   aby, abye, atone, expiate

   make amends for

   type of:

   alter, change, modify

   cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
2. noun

   a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
   synonyms: amends, damages, indemnification, indemnity, restitution

   types:

   relief

   (law) redress awarded by a court

   actual damages, compensatory damages, general damages

   (law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated

   nominal damages

   (law) a trivial sum (usually $1.00) awarded as recognition that a legal injury was sustained (as for technical violations of a contract)

   exemplary damages, punitive damages, smart money

   (law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct)

   atonement, expiation, satisfaction

   compensation for a wrong

   double damages

   twice the amount that a court would normally find the injured party entitled to

   treble damages

   three times the amount that a court would normally find the injured party entitled to

   type of:

   compensation

   something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)
3. noun

   act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
   synonyms: remediation, remedy

   types:

   salve

   anything that remedies or heals or soothes

   type of:

   correction, rectification

   the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right