Word Meaning

redress definition and meaning

v. t. To dress again.
v. t. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
v. t. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
v. t. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
n. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
n. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
n. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

Crossword clues for redress

- Compensation for wrong or injury
- Put right a wrong
- Reparation
- Set right