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US
/ɹɪˈdim/
]
[ UK /ɹɪdˈiːm/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪdˈiːm/ ]
VERB
- to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange
- pay off (loans or promissory notes)
- exchange or buy back for money; under threat
- restore the honor or worth of
- convert into cash; of commercial papers
- save from sins
How To Use redeem In A Sentence
- A poor game was redeemed in the second half by a couple of superb goals from Anthony Edwards.
- The show was so on its way to redeeming itself the past few weeks and then this.
- You can swap the cards for cash but pay 3.50 to redeem each card. Times, Sunday Times
- I was pleasantly surprised to see him shown in such a spiritually redeeming light.
- Nevertheless, in terms of the rights which attach, redeemable preference shares are more akin to debt than shares.
- But a redeeming tendency is emerging , too.
- His films, as a result, are often repulsive; yet they contain the occasional flash of genius that may redeem the more unpalatable aspects of his work.
- Employees will work to prequalify iPhone customers while they wait in line; those buyers will receive a claim ticket for the phone, which Apple says can be redeemed on the spot or later the same day by 6PM (or 4PM on Sundays). Apple stores opening early for iPhone customers
- And when he was before the prince, he excused himself so sagely that the prince and his council held him excused, and so he fell again into the prince's love and redeemed out his men by reasonable ransoms; and the chatelain was set to his ransom of ten thousand franks, the which he paid after. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
- We have no low buffoonery in the former, such as disgraces Enobarbus, and is hardly redeemed by his affecting catastrophe. The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05