The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reparation \Rep`a*ra"tion\ (-r?"sh?n), n. [F. r['e]paration, L. reparatio. See Repair to mend.]
The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway; -- in this sense, repair is oftener used.
--Arbuthnot.-
The act of making amends or giving satisfaction or compensation for a wrong, injury, etc.; also, the thing done or given; amends; satisfaction; indemnity;
--used, e.g. in the phrasepay reparations, or
I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able.
--Dryden.Syn: Restoration; repair; restitution; compensation; amends; satisfaction.
Usage examples of "pay reparations".
International and private relief agencies based in Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Turkey will get most of it to pay reparations for what Kazakov has done to their people.
The Benignity has filed complaints, and threatens to take action if we don't pay reparations for their two cruisers, which have somehow grown to dreadnoughts.
He'll probably offer to pay reparations and indemnity, and salute the Barkutian flag, and all that.
This was followed by a formal apology - even though, given the circumstances, one was technically not required - and a conjoined offer to pay reparations.
Nonetheless, Alhambra was required to pay reparations severe enough to impoverish it for a generation.
And they, of course, will pay reparations to my sorrowing family and send back a flag-draped coffin.