redress

1. 1.

   make reparations or amends for

   “right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust”

   Synonymsrightcompensatecorrect

   Broaderchange

   Narrowerover-correctexpiate

Other forms of redress

plural

redresses·

past tense

redressed·

present participle

redressing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about redress

What does redress mean?

redress means "a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in redress?

redress has 2 syllables: re-dress. The stress falls on "dress". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈdɹɛs/.

What is another word for redress?

Close synonyms include damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is redress a common word?

redress is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with redress?

5 words rhyme with redress. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.