Definition of REDRESSES

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Verb

correct, rectify, emend, remedy, redress, amend, reform, revise mean to make right what is wrong. correct implies taking action to remove errors, faults, deviations, defects. correct your spelling rectify implies a more essential changing to make something right, just, or properly controlled or directed. rectify a misguided policy emend specifically implies correction of a text or manuscript. emend a text remedy implies removing or making harmless a cause of trouble, harm, or evil. set out to remedy the evils of the world redress implies making compensation or reparation for an unfairness, injustice, or imbalance. redress past social injustices amend, reform, revise imply an improving by making corrective changes, amend usually suggesting slight changes amend a law , reform implying drastic change plans to reform the court system , and revise suggesting a careful examination of something and the making of necessary changes. revise the schedule

Examples of redress in a Sentence

Verb It is time to redress the injustices of the past. the belief that redressing a murder with another murder, even if carried out by the state, is not morally justified Noun the new skis were certainly an adequate redress for the lost snowboard

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Doing so would both help redress a fundamental global inequity and also push against the soft-power inroads of Russia and China, countries whose own cheaper vaccines are being taken up across the developing world. — Washington Post, "The pandemic leads to new forms of inequality," 19 Feb. 2021 To redress the resulting imbalance of power between the executive and legislative branches of government, President Biden should push for the repeal of the existing AUMFs and reaffirm Congress’s constitutional war powers. — Erik Edstrom, The New Republic, "How Biden Can Transform America’s Foreign Policy," 16 Mar. 2021 This feeling is based on their desire to redress their past humiliations and to regain the past glories by becoming a world power. — Manyin Li, National Review, "What China Really Wants: A New World Order," 7 Mar. 2021 According to the researchers, to redress the problem companies must create programs that identify promising Black workers and place them on a management track. — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, "It could take 100 years for Black employees to catch up in corporate America, study finds," 3 Mar. 2021 The most rigorous inquisition too is requisite to watch every inequality on its first appearance; and the most severe jurisdiction, to punish and redress it. — WSJ, "Equality Goes With Freedom, Equity Doesn’t," 11 Mar. 2021 The Minnesota Department of Human Rights announced the settlement Monday in which Villaume also committed to take sweeping steps to redress past hiring practices and create an inclusive and welcoming workplace. — Jackie Crosby, Star Tribune, "Eagan-based Villaume Industries to pay $90,000 fine over 'blatant gender discrimination'," 1 Mar. 2021 The government of West Germany paid reparations to the state of Israel to compensate for the Holocaust—and this has generally been considered a good-faith effort at least to acknowledge a harm that no amount of money could ever fully redress. — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, "The Incalculable Debt That America Owes Black People," 26 Feb. 2021 The commission focused on policies to redress historic inequities and racial injustice caused by marijuana criminalization. — John Bacon, USA TODAY, "Virginia becomes first Southern state to vote to legalize recreational marijuana use in nod to racial justice," 28 Feb. 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Without some kind of restrictive legal covenant covering his giving, Huntsman seems to have little redress in clawing the money back. — The Salt Lake Tribune, "James Huntsman isn’t the first to sue the LDS Church for a tithing refund. Do any of them stand a chance?," 4 Apr. 2021 It’s a First Amendment right to petition your government for redress of grievances. — al, "Mo Brooks calls U.S. Capitol rioters ‘fools’; says sedition charges up to Justice Department," 27 Mar. 2021 This plan, however, is far from the direct payments that have come to characterize reparations — redress for slavery and the subsequent racial discrimination in the United States. — NBC News, "Evanston is the first U.S. city to issue slavery reparations. Experts say it's a noble start.," 26 Mar. 2021 This would be significant for offering some redress for the rampant antiblackness that still exists among the Five Tribes and throughout Indian Country. — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Descendants of enslaved Black people have right to Indigenous citizenship," 14 Mar. 2021 Shannon Liss-Riordan, a Boston attorney who has filed misclassification cases on behalf of gig workers and janitors said the decision should help California workers seeking redress over wage violations that occurred before April 2018. — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, "California high court: ‘ABC test’ for gig workers is retroactive, in blow to Uber, Lyft," 14 Jan. 2021 The bank would have faced a £37.2 million penalty if the FCA hadn’t taken into account its redress program. — Sabela Ojea, WSJ, "U.K. Watchdog Fines Barclays Units $34.7 Million Over Treatment of Customers in Arrears," 15 Dec. 2020 The plaintiffs in the German case are seeking redress in U.S. courts because the German Advisory Commission on the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution has ruled that the sales were not coerced. — Ron Kampeas, sun-sentinel.com, "Trump administration calling for Holocaust restitution cases outside U.S. meets with skepticism," 9 Dec. 2020 The law sat dormant for nearly 200 years, but in recent decades has resurfaced as a tool of human rights activists seeking redress for victims abroad. — Kristen Leigh Painter, Star Tribune, "Cargill argues in front of Supreme Court in child labor case," 1 Dec. 2020

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