redress

Meaning

Verb

1. To put in order again; to set right; to revise.
2. To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
3. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To put upright again; to restore.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.
2. (countable, uncountable) A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.
3. (countable, uncountable) A possibility to set right, or a possibility to seek a remedy, for instance in court
4. (countable, uncountable) One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

Noun

The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

Synonyms

remedy

reparation

indemnity

indemnification

correct

compensate

compensation

amends

recompense

damages

indemnify

rectify

amend

adjust

reimburse

reimbursement

remuneration

repair

restitution

right

straighten

correction

expiate

retrieve

benefit

fix

set aright

amendment

remediation

reform

recondition

remove

reparations

atone

rectification

refund

rehabilitate

relief

removal

repay

retrieval

satisfaction

set right

shortcut

slay

straighten out

rehabilitation

enallage

retrim

adjustment

Translations

reparación

επανορθώνω

compensación

compensar

redresser

επανόρθωση

riparare

Entschädigung

Reparation

Vergütung

corregir

rectifier

αποκαθιστώ

redreçar

αποζημίωση

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈdɹɛs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: redressen

Cognate with French: redresser

Cognate with Catalan: redreçar

Cognate with Spanish: redreçar

Cognate with Italian: redreçare

Cognate with Old Provençal: redreisar

In summary

From Middle English redressen, from Anglo-Norman radresser, redrescer, redrescier and Middle French redresser (“to stand (someone or something) up; to stand up again; to rebuild, to repair something damaged, to rectify, to restore; to obtain redress; to cure; (of hair) to stand on end; to revise a judgment”) (modern French redresser), from Old French redrecier (“to stand (someone or something) up; to stand up again”), from Old French re- (“again, once more”) (from Latin re-, from Proto-Italic *wre (“again”); further etymology uncertain) + Old French drechier, drecier, dresser (“to dress; to stand up”) (from Vulgar Latin *drēctiāre, a contracted form of *dirēctiāre, from Latin dīrectus (“straight”)).
Compare Catalan redreçar, Spanish redreçar (obsolete), Italian redreçare, redrezare, redricciare, ridirizzare (all obsolete), ridrizzare, Late Latin redressare (“to repair; to set right”), Old Occitan redreisar, redresar.