A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification
Redress is money that someone pays you because they have caused you harm or loss. They are continuing their legal battle to seek some redress from the government. = compensation. to correct something that is wrong or unfair (redrecier, from drecier ). money that someone pays you because they have caused you harm or damaged your property = compensation
If you redress the balance or the imbalance between two things that have become unfair or unequal, you make them fair and equal again. So we're trying to redress the balance and to give teachers a sense that both spoken and written language are equally important
make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
{f} dress again; correct a wrong, remedy an injustice; compensate, pay damages for an injustice or injury
To set right, remedy or rectify To make amends for (Source: American Heritage Dictionary)
Refers to the movement within the Japanese Canadian community for an official apology and financial compensation, as well as, the final acknowledgement by the federal government in 1988 Under Prime Minister Mulroney the government of Canada gave an official apology for the injustices it had visited upon Japanese Canadians and announced a financial compensation package of some $300 million
If you redress something such as a wrong or a complaint, you do something to correct it or to improve things for the person who has been badly treated. More and more victims turn to litigation to redress wrongs done to them