Definition of restitution in English:

restitution

noun ˌrɛstɪˈtjuːʃ(ə)nˌrɛstəˈt(j)uʃ(ə)n

mass noun

1The restoration of something lost or stolen to its proper owner.
the ANC had demanded the restitution of land seized from blacks
Example sentencesExamples
- A claim for judicial review may include a claim for damages, restitution or the recovery of a sum due but may not seek such a remedy alone.
- The convent thus entered into an additional case with the inheritors of Teresa de Figueroa's estate, seeking the eventual restitution of amounts that her nieces and nephews claimed.
- However, the restitution to their original owners of ceramics in public collections that had been expropriated at the time of World War II has brought a welcome number of highly important pieces to the market.
- If money was stolen, for example, restitution might be a possibility.
- If the private property of an individual was stolen, the thief had to make a tenfold restitution.
- There has been a strong move towards redistribution of land and restitution of land rights that were taken away from large numbers of people during the days of the apartheid policy of moving blacks from white areas to black homelands.
- After the democratic transformation of 1994, programs for land restitution, redistribution, and reform were instituted, but progress has been slow.
- Widows seeking the restitution of their dowries after their husbands died, for example, frequently litigated in the secular courts.
- While in recent years land rights and native title legislation have seen the return of much land to Indigenous Australians, there has been little restitution of commercially valuable property rights in resources.
Synonyms
return, restoration, handing back, replacement, surrender, yielding, recovery
2Recompense for injury or loss.
he was ordered to pay £6,000 in restitution
Example sentencesExamples
- In July 1999 a claim was made to the Tate by the widow's two sons and daughter, asking for compensation, not restitution.
- Having a neutral third party investigate the facts and decide what punishment or restitution should be made is a way to try to get justice in punishment or restitution, but it's neither the only way to get it nor guaranteed to get it.
- And it includes restitution from corporations and public entities that profited from the business of slavery.
- Although restitution or compensation is not explicitly mentioned, this is implied by the use of the word ‘equitable’.
- Win is luckier in that the constable's search reveals her stolen property; poor Frances has only promises of gifts toward her loss by her employers and the hopes of restitution by the Lord Justices whom she is petitioning.
- However, in the highlands, where there is little cultivated land, privatization may entail restitution, as families respect traditional ownership.
- In serious disputes between families, heads of the involved kinship groups or local political leaders negotiate and the offending party is required to make restitution in money and/or land.
- He advocated leniency towards those found guilty of misdemeanours; they were to make restitution, but only the most serious cases were to be dealt with by law, leaving the rest to village opinion.
- The result is likely to be disgorgement of significant amounts of money as restitution, says one official.
- When a law was broken, society sought restitution for the grieved party, even if a slave.
- He had to maintain a clean record, maintain a job, pay restitution to the owners of the buildings he had burned down, and have absolutely no contact with Sheridan Ryan.
- Shareholders will receive $4.9 million in restitution and interest, with the remainder covering penalties.
- However, we were told that you would make full restitution for the damage you have caused to us and, if that is the case, we are not unwilling to let bygones be bygones.
- However, the prosecution managed to talk the court into awarding restitution for the damages that would have been incurred if he'd succeeded.
- Firstly, restitution of previously misappropriated assets provides a strong deterrent to future malfeasance.
- Since such legislation is not compatible, in my view, with Community law, they should, in principle, be entitled to seek restitution for those payments.
- Condo developers are often set up to go out of business once a project is complete, too, leaving the design professional as the only source of restitution for design and performance deficiencies.
- Because the packaging was not up to par, the shipper did not see one cent in restitution.
- Had Jerod really demanded that Dennis MacArthur make restitution for getting carried away teasing me - by taking me out to dinner?
- Before deciding which dealers to pursue, staff members consider the severity of the case, the costs and the likelihood of collecting penalties and restitution.
Synonyms
compensation, recompense, reparation, damages, indemnification, indemnity, reimbursement, repayment, remuneration, reward, redress, satisfaction
quid pro quo
archaic guerdon, meed
rare solatium
3The restoration of something to its original state.
restitution of the damaged mucosa
Example sentencesExamples
- The central action of the play celebrates the marriage of Ferdinand and Miranda as the instrument of dynastic restitution that accords with their desires.
- The gold-mining industry, powerhouse of early twentieth-century growth, was constrained by the restitution of a fixed price for gold against the dollar after the war.
1. 3.1Physics The resumption of an object's original shape or position through elastic recoil.
  the coefficient of restitution
  Example sentencesExamples
  When a ball hits the racket at its point of maximum restitution (CoR) the rebound velocity of the ball will be highest.
  In this research, values for the elastic coefficient of restitution for components of a molasse conglomerate were measured using a newly developed drop-test apparatus.

Derivatives

restitutionary

adjective

The action is not restitutionary; the claimant seeks compensation for wrongdoing.
Example sentencesExamples
- What of claims in knowing receipt, arguably restitutionary in nature, as opposed to dishonest assistance?
- If a person is found to be a fiduciary and has withheld material information, the approach to damages is restitutionary.
- Broadly speaking, the entire field of liability may be divided according to its purposes into criminal, tortious, contractual and restitutionary.
- There is certainly no principle that, for public policy reasons or for other reasons, there can never be restitutionary claims for recovery of taxes wrongly paid.

restitutive

adjective ˈrɛstɪtjuːtɪv

As an aside, it is interesting to note that this tendency towards punitive justice has been accompanied by a growth in restitutive punishments, such as community service orders, statutory fines, and fiscal fines.
Example sentencesExamples
- The other type - restitutive - applies instead when the norm violated does not express, and is not backed by, strong and universally felt sentiments, but is intended chiefly to protect the private interests of individuals.
- Anglo-Saxon law codes suggest a restitutive system, essentially a regulation of the feud.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin restitutio(n-), from restituere 'restore', from re- 'again' + statuere 'establish'.

constitution from Middle English:
A constitution once referred to a law, as well as to a body of laws or customs. It comes from Latin constituere ‘establish, appoint’ from con- ‘together’ and statuere ‘set up, place’. The latter is a rich source of English words including destitute (Late Middle English) literally ‘placed away’ so forsaken; institute (Middle English) something set up or established; restitution (Middle English) a re-establishing; statue (Middle English) something set up; and substitute (Late Middle English) someone set up instead of another. Prostitute (mid 16th century) comes from Latin prostituere ‘expose publicly, offer for sale’, from pro- ‘before’ and statuere ‘set up, place’.

Rhymes

ablution, absolution, allocution, attribution, circumlocution, circumvolution, Confucian, constitution, contribution, convolution, counter-revolution, destitution, dilution, diminution, distribution, electrocution, elocution, evolution, execution, institution, interlocution, irresolution, Lilliputian, locution, perlocution, persecution, pollution, prosecution, prostitution, retribution, Rosicrucian, solution, substitution, volution

Definition of restitution in US English:

restitution

nounˌrɛstəˈt(j)uʃ(ə)nˌrestəˈt(y)o͞oSH(ə)n

1The restoration of something lost or stolen to its proper owner.
seeking the restitution of land taken from blacks under apartheid
Example sentencesExamples
- If the private property of an individual was stolen, the thief had to make a tenfold restitution.
- However, the restitution to their original owners of ceramics in public collections that had been expropriated at the time of World War II has brought a welcome number of highly important pieces to the market.
- After the democratic transformation of 1994, programs for land restitution, redistribution, and reform were instituted, but progress has been slow.
- Widows seeking the restitution of their dowries after their husbands died, for example, frequently litigated in the secular courts.
- The convent thus entered into an additional case with the inheritors of Teresa de Figueroa's estate, seeking the eventual restitution of amounts that her nieces and nephews claimed.
- A claim for judicial review may include a claim for damages, restitution or the recovery of a sum due but may not seek such a remedy alone.
- While in recent years land rights and native title legislation have seen the return of much land to Indigenous Australians, there has been little restitution of commercially valuable property rights in resources.
- There has been a strong move towards redistribution of land and restitution of land rights that were taken away from large numbers of people during the days of the apartheid policy of moving blacks from white areas to black homelands.
- If money was stolen, for example, restitution might be a possibility.
Synonyms
return, restoration, handing back, replacement, surrender, yielding, recovery
2Recompense for injury or loss.
he was ordered to pay $6,000 in restitution
Example sentencesExamples
- Firstly, restitution of previously misappropriated assets provides a strong deterrent to future malfeasance.
- However, in the highlands, where there is little cultivated land, privatization may entail restitution, as families respect traditional ownership.
- Had Jerod really demanded that Dennis MacArthur make restitution for getting carried away teasing me - by taking me out to dinner?
- Since such legislation is not compatible, in my view, with Community law, they should, in principle, be entitled to seek restitution for those payments.
- In July 1999 a claim was made to the Tate by the widow's two sons and daughter, asking for compensation, not restitution.
- And it includes restitution from corporations and public entities that profited from the business of slavery.
- However, the prosecution managed to talk the court into awarding restitution for the damages that would have been incurred if he'd succeeded.
- However, we were told that you would make full restitution for the damage you have caused to us and, if that is the case, we are not unwilling to let bygones be bygones.
- The result is likely to be disgorgement of significant amounts of money as restitution, says one official.
- When a law was broken, society sought restitution for the grieved party, even if a slave.
- In serious disputes between families, heads of the involved kinship groups or local political leaders negotiate and the offending party is required to make restitution in money and/or land.
- Win is luckier in that the constable's search reveals her stolen property; poor Frances has only promises of gifts toward her loss by her employers and the hopes of restitution by the Lord Justices whom she is petitioning.
- Condo developers are often set up to go out of business once a project is complete, too, leaving the design professional as the only source of restitution for design and performance deficiencies.
- Before deciding which dealers to pursue, staff members consider the severity of the case, the costs and the likelihood of collecting penalties and restitution.
- He had to maintain a clean record, maintain a job, pay restitution to the owners of the buildings he had burned down, and have absolutely no contact with Sheridan Ryan.
- He advocated leniency towards those found guilty of misdemeanours; they were to make restitution, but only the most serious cases were to be dealt with by law, leaving the rest to village opinion.
- Shareholders will receive $4.9 million in restitution and interest, with the remainder covering penalties.
- Although restitution or compensation is not explicitly mentioned, this is implied by the use of the word ‘equitable’.
- Having a neutral third party investigate the facts and decide what punishment or restitution should be made is a way to try to get justice in punishment or restitution, but it's neither the only way to get it nor guaranteed to get it.
- Because the packaging was not up to par, the shipper did not see one cent in restitution.
Synonyms
compensation, recompense, reparation, damages, indemnification, indemnity, reimbursement, repayment, remuneration, reward, redress, satisfaction
3The restoration of something to its original state.
restitution of the damaged mucosa
Example sentencesExamples
- The central action of the play celebrates the marriage of Ferdinand and Miranda as the instrument of dynastic restitution that accords with their desires.
- The gold-mining industry, powerhouse of early twentieth-century growth, was constrained by the restitution of a fixed price for gold against the dollar after the war.
1. 3.1Physics The resumption of an object's original shape or position through elastic recoil.
  Example sentencesExamples
  When a ball hits the racket at its point of maximum restitution (CoR) the rebound velocity of the ball will be highest.
  In this research, values for the elastic coefficient of restitution for components of a molasse conglomerate were measured using a newly developed drop-test apparatus.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin restitutio(n-), from restituere ‘restore’, from re- ‘again’ + statuere ‘establish’.

单词	restitution
释义	Definition of restitution in English: restitution noun ˌrɛstɪˈtjuːʃ(ə)nˌrɛstəˈt(j)uʃ(ə)n mass noun 1The restoration of something lost or stolen to its proper owner. the ANC had demanded the restitution of land seized from blacks Example sentencesExamples A claim for judicial review may include a claim for damages, restitution or the recovery of a sum due but may not seek such a remedy alone. The convent thus entered into an additional case with the inheritors of Teresa de Figueroa's estate, seeking the eventual restitution of amounts that her nieces and nephews claimed. However, the restitution to their original owners of ceramics in public collections that had been expropriated at the time of World War II has brought a welcome number of highly important pieces to the market. If money was stolen, for example, restitution might be a possibility. If the private property of an individual was stolen, the thief had to make a tenfold restitution. There has been a strong move towards redistribution of land and restitution of land rights that were taken away from large numbers of people during the days of the apartheid policy of moving blacks from white areas to black homelands. After the democratic transformation of 1994, programs for land restitution, redistribution, and reform were instituted, but progress has been slow. Widows seeking the restitution of their dowries after their husbands died, for example, frequently litigated in the secular courts. While in recent years land rights and native title legislation have seen the return of much land to Indigenous Australians, there has been little restitution of commercially valuable property rights in resources. Synonyms return, restoration, handing back, replacement, surrender, yielding, recovery 2Recompense for injury or loss. he was ordered to pay £6,000 in restitution Example sentencesExamples In July 1999 a claim was made to the Tate by the widow's two sons and daughter, asking for compensation, not restitution. Having a neutral third party investigate the facts and decide what punishment or restitution should be made is a way to try to get justice in punishment or restitution, but it's neither the only way to get it nor guaranteed to get it. And it includes restitution from corporations and public entities that profited from the business of slavery. Although restitution or compensation is not explicitly mentioned, this is implied by the use of the word ‘equitable’. Win is luckier in that the constable's search reveals her stolen property; poor Frances has only promises of gifts toward her loss by her employers and the hopes of restitution by the Lord Justices whom she is petitioning. However, in the highlands, where there is little cultivated land, privatization may entail restitution, as families respect traditional ownership. In serious disputes between families, heads of the involved kinship groups or local political leaders negotiate and the offending party is required to make restitution in money and/or land. He advocated leniency towards those found guilty of misdemeanours; they were to make restitution, but only the most serious cases were to be dealt with by law, leaving the rest to village opinion. The result is likely to be disgorgement of significant amounts of money as restitution, says one official. When a law was broken, society sought restitution for the grieved party, even if a slave. He had to maintain a clean record, maintain a job, pay restitution to the owners of the buildings he had burned down, and have absolutely no contact with Sheridan Ryan. Shareholders will receive $4.9 million in restitution and interest, with the remainder covering penalties. However, we were told that you would make full restitution for the damage you have caused to us and, if that is the case, we are not unwilling to let bygones be bygones. However, the prosecution managed to talk the court into awarding restitution for the damages that would have been incurred if he'd succeeded. Firstly, restitution of previously misappropriated assets provides a strong deterrent to future malfeasance. Since such legislation is not compatible, in my view, with Community law, they should, in principle, be entitled to seek restitution for those payments. Condo developers are often set up to go out of business once a project is complete, too, leaving the design professional as the only source of restitution for design and performance deficiencies. Because the packaging was not up to par, the shipper did not see one cent in restitution. Had Jerod really demanded that Dennis MacArthur make restitution for getting carried away teasing me - by taking me out to dinner? Before deciding which dealers to pursue, staff members consider the severity of the case, the costs and the likelihood of collecting penalties and restitution. Synonyms compensation, recompense, reparation, damages, indemnification, indemnity, reimbursement, repayment, remuneration, reward, redress, satisfaction quid pro quo archaic guerdon, meed rare solatium 3The restoration of something to its original state. restitution of the damaged mucosa Example sentencesExamples The central action of the play celebrates the marriage of Ferdinand and Miranda as the instrument of dynastic restitution that accords with their desires. The gold-mining industry, powerhouse of early twentieth-century growth, was constrained by the restitution of a fixed price for gold against the dollar after the war. 3.1Physics The resumption of an object's original shape or position through elastic recoil. the coefficient of restitution Example sentencesExamples When a ball hits the racket at its point of maximum restitution (CoR) the rebound velocity of the ball will be highest. In this research, values for the elastic coefficient of restitution for components of a molasse conglomerate were measured using a newly developed drop-test apparatus. Derivatives restitutionary adjective The action is not restitutionary; the claimant seeks compensation for wrongdoing. Example sentencesExamples What of claims in knowing receipt, arguably restitutionary in nature, as opposed to dishonest assistance? If a person is found to be a fiduciary and has withheld material information, the approach to damages is restitutionary. Broadly speaking, the entire field of liability may be divided according to its purposes into criminal, tortious, contractual and restitutionary. There is certainly no principle that, for public policy reasons or for other reasons, there can never be restitutionary claims for recovery of taxes wrongly paid. restitutive adjective ˈrɛstɪtjuːtɪv As an aside, it is interesting to note that this tendency towards punitive justice has been accompanied by a growth in restitutive punishments, such as community service orders, statutory fines, and fiscal fines. Example sentencesExamples The other type - restitutive - applies instead when the norm violated does not express, and is not backed by, strong and universally felt sentiments, but is intended chiefly to protect the private interests of individuals. Anglo-Saxon law codes suggest a restitutive system, essentially a regulation of the feud. Origin Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin restitutio(n-), from restituere 'restore', from re- 'again' + statuere 'establish'. constitution from Middle English: A constitution once referred to a law, as well as to a body of laws or customs. It comes from Latin constituere ‘establish, appoint’ from con- ‘together’ and statuere ‘set up, place’. The latter is a rich source of English words including destitute (Late Middle English) literally ‘placed away’ so forsaken; institute (Middle English) something set up or established; restitution (Middle English) a re-establishing; statue (Middle English) something set up; and substitute (Late Middle English) someone set up instead of another. Prostitute (mid 16th century) comes from Latin prostituere ‘expose publicly, offer for sale’, from pro- ‘before’ and statuere ‘set up, place’. Rhymes ablution, absolution, allocution, attribution, circumlocution, circumvolution, Confucian, constitution, contribution, convolution, counter-revolution, destitution, dilution, diminution, distribution, electrocution, elocution, evolution, execution, institution, interlocution, irresolution, Lilliputian, locution, perlocution, persecution, pollution, prosecution, prostitution, retribution, Rosicrucian, solution, substitution, volution Definition of restitution in US English: restitution nounˌrɛstəˈt(j)uʃ(ə)nˌrestəˈt(y)o͞oSH(ə)n 1The restoration of something lost or stolen to its proper owner. seeking the restitution of land taken from blacks under apartheid Example sentencesExamples If the private property of an individual was stolen, the thief had to make a tenfold restitution. However, the restitution to their original owners of ceramics in public collections that had been expropriated at the time of World War II has brought a welcome number of highly important pieces to the market. After the democratic transformation of 1994, programs for land restitution, redistribution, and reform were instituted, but progress has been slow. Widows seeking the restitution of their dowries after their husbands died, for example, frequently litigated in the secular courts. The convent thus entered into an additional case with the inheritors of Teresa de Figueroa's estate, seeking the eventual restitution of amounts that her nieces and nephews claimed. A claim for judicial review may include a claim for damages, restitution or the recovery of a sum due but may not seek such a remedy alone. While in recent years land rights and native title legislation have seen the return of much land to Indigenous Australians, there has been little restitution of commercially valuable property rights in resources. There has been a strong move towards redistribution of land and restitution of land rights that were taken away from large numbers of people during the days of the apartheid policy of moving blacks from white areas to black homelands. If money was stolen, for example, restitution might be a possibility. Synonyms return, restoration, handing back, replacement, surrender, yielding, recovery 2Recompense for injury or loss. he was ordered to pay $6,000 in restitution Example sentencesExamples Firstly, restitution of previously misappropriated assets provides a strong deterrent to future malfeasance. However, in the highlands, where there is little cultivated land, privatization may entail restitution, as families respect traditional ownership. Had Jerod really demanded that Dennis MacArthur make restitution for getting carried away teasing me - by taking me out to dinner? Since such legislation is not compatible, in my view, with Community law, they should, in principle, be entitled to seek restitution for those payments. In July 1999 a claim was made to the Tate by the widow's two sons and daughter, asking for compensation, not restitution. And it includes restitution from corporations and public entities that profited from the business of slavery. However, the prosecution managed to talk the court into awarding restitution for the damages that would have been incurred if he'd succeeded. However, we were told that you would make full restitution for the damage you have caused to us and, if that is the case, we are not unwilling to let bygones be bygones. The result is likely to be disgorgement of significant amounts of money as restitution, says one official. When a law was broken, society sought restitution for the grieved party, even if a slave. In serious disputes between families, heads of the involved kinship groups or local political leaders negotiate and the offending party is required to make restitution in money and/or land. Win is luckier in that the constable's search reveals her stolen property; poor Frances has only promises of gifts toward her loss by her employers and the hopes of restitution by the Lord Justices whom she is petitioning. Condo developers are often set up to go out of business once a project is complete, too, leaving the design professional as the only source of restitution for design and performance deficiencies. Before deciding which dealers to pursue, staff members consider the severity of the case, the costs and the likelihood of collecting penalties and restitution. He had to maintain a clean record, maintain a job, pay restitution to the owners of the buildings he had burned down, and have absolutely no contact with Sheridan Ryan. He advocated leniency towards those found guilty of misdemeanours; they were to make restitution, but only the most serious cases were to be dealt with by law, leaving the rest to village opinion. Shareholders will receive $4.9 million in restitution and interest, with the remainder covering penalties. Although restitution or compensation is not explicitly mentioned, this is implied by the use of the word ‘equitable’. Having a neutral third party investigate the facts and decide what punishment or restitution should be made is a way to try to get justice in punishment or restitution, but it's neither the only way to get it nor guaranteed to get it. Because the packaging was not up to par, the shipper did not see one cent in restitution. Synonyms compensation, recompense, reparation, damages, indemnification, indemnity, reimbursement, repayment, remuneration, reward, redress, satisfaction 3The restoration of something to its original state. restitution of the damaged mucosa Example sentencesExamples The central action of the play celebrates the marriage of Ferdinand and Miranda as the instrument of dynastic restitution that accords with their desires. The gold-mining industry, powerhouse of early twentieth-century growth, was constrained by the restitution of a fixed price for gold against the dollar after the war. 3.1Physics The resumption of an object's original shape or position through elastic recoil. Example sentencesExamples When a ball hits the racket at its point of maximum restitution (CoR) the rebound velocity of the ball will be highest. In this research, values for the elastic coefficient of restitution for components of a molasse conglomerate were measured using a newly developed drop-test apparatus. Origin Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin restitutio(n-), from restituere ‘restore’, from re- ‘again’ + statuere ‘establish’.
随便看	ecoconsumer eco-defence eco-defense fundi fundible fundic fundie fundied fundies funding funding funding agencies funding agency funding bodies funding body fundings fundis fund manager fundraise fundraiser fundraisers fundraising funds funds fundss