[ US /ˈɹidɹɛs, ɹɪˈdɹɛs/ ]
VERB
  1. make reparations or amends for
    right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust
NOUN
  1. act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
  2. a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
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How To Use redress In A Sentence

  • When she returned she redressed her hair, drawing it back across her ears, put in at a provocative angle a fan-like carved shell comb, and twisted a shawl of flame-colored silk -- it was a manton, she instructed him -- about her shoulders. Cytherea
  • Critics warn that the new hedges were often overvalued, allowing banks to minimise how much the redress scheme costs them. Times, Sunday Times
  • Chief among the grievances I identify as providing primary justifying grounds for secession are these: persistent and serious violations of individual human rights and past unredressed unjust seizure of territory.
  • “We should work for redressal of public grievances instead of fighting with each other”, he said and called upon all legislators including opposition to work for fulfilling public demands and resolving their difficulties. Indian Kashmir Chief said,���I believe in pious political ethics,upright character & moral principle
  • A key component of that warfare by the ubër rich was to emaciate or destroy the unions through new laws restricting unionization, bankruptcy courts killing labor contracts, diversion of pension funds, abusive tactics against organizers, shipping jobs elsewhere and PR campaigns vilifying the very concept of collective bargaining to redress serious economic disadvantages. Sneak Attack
  • The Railway Administration of Beijing redressed the damage done to my baggage during the transportation.
  • The NHS in the UK imports doctors from other countries in order to redress the perceived shortage of doctors in this country.
  • In a just society there must be a system whereby people can seek redress through the courts.
  • It is perfectly justifiable for him to seek redress - and he intends to do so with vigour. Times, Sunday Times
  • The department is currently exploring all possible avenues to redress this situation.
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