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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
redress
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
redress the balance (also restore the balance British English) (= make it equal or correct again)
▪ What can be done to redress the balance in favour of women?
redress...imbalance (=put it right)
▪ The government must redress the imbalance in spending on black and white children.
redress/remedy a grievanceformal (= do something to make a problem better)
▪ Governments which have not redressed genuine grievances often pay a heavy price later on.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
balance
▪ By establishing formal links with the universities, and international specialists, they hope to redress the balance.
▪ So when the press was biased towards the political right, television coverage would redress the balance by leaning to the left.
▪ If there is any point at all to democratic government it is, surely, to redress the balance in our favour.
▪ In other words, it was only through hostilities that the Spartans felt they could redress the balance.
▪ These groupings within the general community of women need special attention to redress the balance of lack of opportunity.
▪ They also hoped to redress the balance of the problems caused by the Conservatives.
▪ Helping to redress the balance is G-DHCB, seen here at Lee-on-Solent where it undertook water trials during the summer months.
▪ If I really had the courage of my convictions, I reasoned, I ought to redress the balance at least slightly.
imbalance
▪ Saving Sierra Leone is, as much as anything else, about redressing the awful imbalance in life chances the war created.
▪ To redress the imbalance between the photograph and the original he emphasizes the need for more original art in more public places.
▪ Active partnership with the private sector is being sought to redress this imbalance.
▪ I want as well to redress some imbalances in recent academic accounts of the period known as the sixties.
▪ It redresses the imbalance in the existing historical literature of the period, which is heavily weighted in favour of economic and political issues.
▪ On a wider note, authors need to organise themselves to redress the current imbalance of power.
▪ Solving the problem A pressing need in reforming medical education is to redress the imbalance between teaching, research, and administration.
▪ It is hoped that this work may play some small part in redressing this imbalance.
situation
▪ If this happens, it is then impossible to redress the situation.
▪ But, for a few months, de Lattre infused his troops with the conviction that they might redress the dismal situation.
▪ But little could be done to redress the situation since the houses were in just as bad a position as the growers.
▪ The long term implications have not been fully considered, a situation this project seeks to redress.
▪ Any attempt to redress the situation backfired.
▪ They wanted something to be done, quickly, to redress the situation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Congress has done little to redress these injustices.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But we should be clear that we are redressing a difference, not discovering an identity.
▪ But, for a few months, de Lattre infused his troops with the conviction that they might redress the dismal situation.
▪ If this happens, it is then impossible to redress the situation.
▪ In other words, it was only through hostilities that the Spartans felt they could redress the balance.
▪ Saving Sierra Leone is, as much as anything else, about redressing the awful imbalance in life chances the war created.
▪ She felt constrained creatively by the reactions of the critics, even making conscious interventions to redress their interpretations.
▪ So when the press was biased towards the political right, television coverage would redress the balance by leaning to the left.
▪ To redress the imbalance between the photograph and the original he emphasizes the need for more original art in more public places.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
legal
▪ Neither the trustees of the estate nor the outraged relatives have any form of legal redress.
▪ However, it was pointed out that legal redress isn't always obtainable, discrimination against women being an analogy.
▪ The danger is that your rights of legal redress in such cases will be limited or non-existent in practice.
▪ The workers fear it may be sold, but they've no legal redress.
▪ If these conditions were not met, the would-be entrepreneur could seek legal redress.
■ VERB
seek
▪ This leaflet is designed to outline the procedures through which you, the customer, can register your views or seek redress.
▪ One remains a slave for as long as one still addresses the master and seeks redress from the master.
▪ Several said that they would seek redress through the courts.
▪ If the answer is positive then the employer can seek redress.
▪ Employees aggrieved by the actions of their employers may seek redress through the courts or at an industrial tribunal.
▪ The leaders of the mainstream opposition are seeking redress in the courts, not out on the streets.
▪ Any member of the scheme who felt that the terms of the trust were being abused could seek redress under trust law.
▪ If they don't come up to scratch, we can complain to their professional body and seek redress.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The courts provide the means of redress for victims of crime.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Because of the limited liability of shareholders, creditors had no redress.
▪ Equally, you may have a right of redress if you are dismissed for failure to comply with an unjust order.
▪ It is normal to restrict both the amounts involved and the timescale for seeking redress.
▪ One remains a slave for as long as one still addresses the master and seeks redress from the master.
▪ The families of the victims chose to pursue the action because it was the only form of redress open to them.
▪ Unless there is any redress to this distortion, the marginal products of labour will not be equal.
▪ We had no one to speak for us, we had no redress.
▪ We were wrong to look for redress from others when we should be taking the wrong done to our master upon ourselves.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Redress

Redress \Re*dress"\ (r?*dr?s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + dress.] To dress again.

Redress

Redress \Re*dress"\ (r?*dr?s"), v. t. [F. redresser to straighten; pref. re- re- + dresser to raise, arrange. See Dress.]

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

    The common profit could she redress.
    --Chaucer.

    In yonder spring of roses intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon.
    --Milton.

    Your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared.
    --A. Hamilton.

  2. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.

    Those wrongs, those bitter injuries, . . . I doubt not but with honor to redress.
    --Shak.

  3. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon. ``'T is thine, O king! the afflicted to redress.''
    --Dryden.

    Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye?
    --Byron.

Redress

Redress \Re*dress"\, n.

  1. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment. [R.]

    Reformation of evil laws is commendable, but for us the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves.
    --Hooker.

  2. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
    --Shak.

    A few may complain without reason; but there is occasion for redress when the cry is universal.
    --Davenant.

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

    Fair majesty, the refuge and redress Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress.
    --Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
redress

mid-14c., "to correct, reform;" late 14c., "restore, put right" (a wrong, error, offense); "repair; relieve; improve; amend," from Old French redrecier "reform, restore, rebuild" (Modern French redresser), from re- "again" (see re-) + drecier "to straighten, arrange" (see dress (v.)). Formerly used in many more senses than currently. Related: Redressed; redressing.

Wiktionary
redress

Etymology 1 n. 1 The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment. 2 A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or oppression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification. 3 One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser. vb. 1 To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise. 2 To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from. 3 To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon. 4 (context obsolete transitive English) To put upright again; to restore. Etymology 2

n. The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set. vb. 1 To dress again. 2 To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

WordNet
redress

  1. n. a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury [syn: damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution]

  2. act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil [syn: remedy, remediation]

  3. v. make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust" [syn: right, compensate, correct] [ant: wrong]

Wikipedia
Redress

In film, a redress is the redecoration of an existing movie set, so that it can double for another set. This saves the trouble and expenses of constructing a second, new set, though they face the difficulty of doing it so the average viewer does not notice the same set is reused. Also there could be logistical problems, such as conflicting shooting schedules, continuity if the set is not quite the same as it was (if it should be the same) or different (if it should be). The latter problem arises because the set dresser may be unaware of changes created by the action.

Redress (charitable organisation)

Redress, or The Redress Trust is a human rights organisation based in London, England, that helps survivors of torture to obtain justice and reparation, in the form of compensation, rehabilitation, official acknowledgement of the wrong and formal apologies. In addition Redress seek accountability for those who have been tortured.

Redress (disambiguation)

Redress is the redecoration of an existing movie set so that it can double for another set.

Redress may also refer to:

  • Collective redress, a legal concept
  • Redress Control Number, an identification number issued by the United States Department of Homeland Security to travelers who would otherwise be subjected to excessive scrutiny at security checkpoints.
  • Redress (charitable organisation), a human rights organization
  • Redress, a 1988 agreement between the federal Government of Canada and the National Association of Japanese Canadians to explore the circumstances of the internment of Japanese-Canadians during World War II
  • User interface redress (also seen as UI redress), an alternative term for clickjacking

Usage examples of "redress".

A great injustice was done to me and my brother in years agone, and if he be unable or unwilling to go back, then it be my bounden duty to redress that wrong in the blood of those who perpetrated it.

And though all these grievances had been already redressed, and even laws enacted for future security against their return, the praise of these advantages was ascribed, not to the king, but to the parliament, who had extorted his consent to such salutary statutes.

Whereupon I went to Fotis, to aske counsell of her as of some Divine, who although she was unwilling that I should depart one foot from her company, yet at length shee gave me license to bee absent for a while, saying , Beware that you tarry not long at supper there, for there is a rabblement of common Barrettors and disturbers of the publique peace, that rove about in the streets and murther all such as they may take, neither can law nor justice redress them in any case.

Nothing will make you successful but setting up a policy which shall treat the thing as being wrong: When I say this, I do not mean to say that this General Government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world, but I do think that it is charged with preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.

Then some began to speak of victories to come, and of redressing the Battle of the Bragollach, when Maedhros should lead forth the united hosts, and drive Morgoth underground, and seal the Doors of Angband.

The election of a woman to the position of authority in the House would go a little way towards redressing the balance.

Ireland peaceably to propose, prepare, and present petitions for redressing grievances to his majesty, and to both houses of parliament.

They could be flogged within an inch of their lives, they could have their crops or their products or their women stolen without redress at lawif the thief was a Roman.

To great numbers of loyalists, all redress from these sequestrations was refused: to the rest, the remedy could be obtained only by paying large compositions, and subscribing the covenant, which they abhorred.

When, I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, or that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made.

Awed, even a little frightened by his new Lulu, Monsieur Verger limited himself to a single peep while she redressed.

Mahomet assured them that on his return to Adrianople he would redress the grievances, and consult the true interests, of the Greeks.

The Bucephalas was in a degree of danger that would require luck as well as ability to redress.

Sir Ensor, a wild rebellious son of an Earl of Moray, who travelled with his wife to Exmoor, and settled there, in a rage because the king would give him no redress against his elder brother.

As this government expects redress from other powers when similar injuries are inflicted by persons in their service upon citizens of the United States, we must be prepared to do justice to foreigners.