Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Affording redress; giving relief.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to redress.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending to
redress .
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Examples
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In the memorandum addressed to JSE president Richard Loubser and Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, Sasco said it was worried that some of government's redressive policies had a negative impact on its capacity to spend on social causes such as health and education.
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In the memorandum addressed to JSE president Richard Loubser and Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, Sasco said it was worried that some of government's redressive policies had a negative impact on its capacity to spend on social causes such as health and education.
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In the memorandum, addressed to JSE president Richard Loubser and Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, Sasco said it was worried that some of government's redressive policies had a negative impact on its capacity to spend on social causes such as health and education.
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Then came the third stage, an attempt at redressive action, with a Woods apologizing for
ajc.com - News Orin Starn 2009
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It is intended that the ABA [now the ACMA] monitor the broadcasting industry's performance against clear, established rules, intervene only where it has real cause for concern, and has effective redressive powers to act to correct breaches.
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Turner premised four stages to the most common chain of events: breech, crisis, redressive action and reintegration.
ajc.com - News Orin Starn 2009
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It is intended that the ABA [now ACMA] monitor the broadcasting industry's performance against clear, established rules, intervene only where it has real cause for concern, and has effective redressive powers to act to correct breaches.
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It is intended that the ABA [now the ACMA] monitor the broadcasting industry's performance against clear, established rules, intervene only where it has real cause for concern, and has effective redressive powers to act to correct breaches.
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Nowadays redressive action only seems to work if you're willing to squirm and suffer a bit in front of the cameras.
ajc.com - News Orin Starn 2009
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(As a person deeply committed to nonviolence, I also have to acknowledge that the violence of the ethnic groups in the global drug connection, although later powerful and indeed intelligence-related, had its origins in redressive violence, against a system dominated above all by European and American interests.)
Dandelion Salad 2008
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