redress

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n. 赔偿, 补救, 矫正 vt. 纠正, 赔偿, 救济

发音

UK /ɹɪˈdɹɛs/
UK /ˌɹiːˈdɹɛs/
其它
US /ɹiˈdɹɛs/
AU
US /ɹəˈdɹɛs/

词形变化

redresses 复数 redresses 三单 redressing 现在分词 redressed 过去式 redressed 过去分词

别名

re-dress

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.

    纠正

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  2. 2.

    A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.

    可数 不可数

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

  3. 3.

    A possibility to set right, or a possibility to seek a remedy, for instance in court

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  4. 4.

    One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

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  5. 1.

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

    媒体
v.
  1. 1.

    To put upright again; to restore.

    废旧 及物
  2. 2.

    To put in order again; to set right; to revise.

    Let us divide our labours; thou, where choice / Leads thee, or where most needs, whether to wind / The woodbine round this arbour, or direct / The clasping ivy where to climb; while I, / In yonder spring of roses intermixed / With myrtle, find what to redress till noon: […]

    Sir; When last in Philadelphia, you mentioned to me your wish that I should re-dress a certain paper, which you had prepared. As it is important, that a thing of this kind should be done with great care, and much at leisure, touched and retouched, I submit a wish, that, as soon as you have given it the body you mean it to have, it may be sent to me.

  3. 3.

    To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.

  4. 4.

    To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.

  5. 1.

    To dress again.

  6. 2.

    To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

    媒体

词汇关系

名词

同义词 7

damages remedy amends restitution indemnity remediation indemnification

上位词 3

compensation correction rectification

下位词 6

relief satisfaction atonement salve expiation smart-money
动词

同义词 3

right correct compensate

上位词 3

change alter modify

下位词 6

atone aby abye expiate overcompensate overcorrect

词源

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 *dīrēctiāre, from Latin dīrēctus (“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.

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