redressverb [ T ]
uk/rɪˈdres/us/rɪˈdres/formalto put right a wrong or give payment for a wrong that has been done:
Most managers, politicians and bosses are men - how can women redress the balance (= make the situation fairer and more equal)?
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Correcting and mending
- clean (sth) up
- correction
- fiddle (around) with sth
- fine-tune
- fix sth up
- lie
- mess
- patch
- reconstruction
- refine
- refinement
- refit
- remediate
- revised
- smooth
- sort sth/sb out
- troubleshooting
- tune
- under repair idiom
- work on sth
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redressnoun [ U ]
uk/rɪˈdres/us/rɪˈdres/formalmoney that you have to pay to someone else because you have injured that person or treated them badly:
He went to the industrial tribunal to seek redress for the way his employers had discriminated against him.
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Costs & expenses
- admission
- aliment
- alimony
- asking price
- carrying charge
- charge
- compensation
- corkage
- cost an arm and a leg/a small fortune idiom
- cost-of-living index
- damage
- dent
- flat rate
- indirect cost
- maintenance
- price war
- running costs
- settlement
- stoppage
- worth
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