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Meaning of redress

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  redress
      n 1: a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
           [syn: {damages}, {amends}, {indemnity}, {indemnification},
           {restitution}, {redress}]
      2: act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil [syn:
         {redress}, {remedy}, {remediation}]
      v 1: make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the
           victims of the Holocaust" [syn: {right}, {compensate},
           {redress}, {correct}] [ant: {wrong}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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