Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Redress; the act of redressing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of redressing; redress.

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  • noun The act of redressing; redress.

Etymologies

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Compare French redressement.

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Examples

  • Merkel and Sarkozy pressed the Greek leader on the "importance they attach to the strict and effective implementation of the Greek economic redressment program," statements issued in Paris and Berlin said.

    unknown title 2011

  • Merkel and Sarkozy pressed the Greek leader on the "importance they attach to the strict and effective implementation of the Greek economic redressment program," statements issued in Paris and Berlin said.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Merkel and Sarkozy pressed the Greek leader on the "importance they attach to the strict and effective implementation of the Greek economic redressment program," statements issued in Paris and Berlin said.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Elena Becatoros 2011

  • Ms. Merkel and Mr. Sarkozy pressed the Greek leader on the "importance they attach to the strict and effective implementation of the Greek economic redressment program," statements issued in Paris and Berlin said.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Elena Becatoros 2011

  • Merkel and Sarkozy pressed the Greek leader on the "importance they attach to the strict and effective implementation of the Greek economic redressment program," statements issued in Paris and Berlin said.

    unknown title 2011

  • Don Quixote undertook to redress the bodily wrongs of the world, but the redressment of mental vagaries would be an enterprise more than Quixotic.

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Thomas Jefferson 1784

  • The disposition of those assets will eventually be determined by the courts or by a new independent federal agency, with priority given to the reimbursement of persons and property-holders victimized by this catastrophe, and the redressment of damage or destruction to public assets and municipal, state, and national interests for which the former British

    redblueamerica.com blogs 2010

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