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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reparation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
make
▪ The cure lies in identifying the disturbed relationship, making such reparation as seems appropriate, and so restoring peace and tranquillity.
▪ The time for the West to begin making reparation for the sins of the past is long overdue.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ What should be the reparation for a mother whose child was murdered?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Almost a fifth of the fund will cover property losses and projects connected with reparation.
▪ He said that this is my reparation, and I need fear no other.
▪ It was born of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and is supposed to culminate in a reparation fund.
▪ No reparation seems to be being made for killing off the father.
▪ The cure lies in identifying the disturbed relationship, making such reparation as seems appropriate, and so restoring peace and tranquillity.
▪ The sticking points, according to the official, concern existing references to Zionism and the issue of reparation for slavery.
▪ The time for the West to begin making reparation for the sins of the past is long overdue.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reparation

Reparation \Rep`a*ra"tion\ (-r?"sh?n), n. [F. r['e]paration, L. reparatio. See Repair to mend.]

  1. 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.

  2. 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 phrase

    make reparation,

    pay reparations, or

    make reparations.

    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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reparation

late 14c., "reconciliation," from Old French reparacion and directly from Late Latin reparationem (nominative reparatio) "act of repairing, restoration," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin reparare "restore, repair" (see repair (v.1)). Meaning "act of repairing or mending" is attested from c.1400. Reparations "compensation for war damaged owed by the aggressor" is attested from 1921, with reference to Germany, from French réparations (1919).

Wiktionary
reparation

n. 1 (context usually in plural English) A payment of time, effort or money to undo past transgression(s). 2 The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired.

WordNet
reparation
  1. n. compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury; "an act for which there is no reparation"

  2. (usually plural) compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors; "Germany was unable to pay the reparations demanded after Wordl War I"

  3. the act of putting something in working order again [syn: repair, fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending]

  4. something done or paid in expiation of a wrong; "how can I make amends" [syn: amends]

Wikipedia
Reparation

Reparation may refer to:

  • Reparation (legal), the legal philosophy
  • Reparations (transitional justice), measures taken by the state to redress gross and systematic violations of human rights law or humanitarian law
  • Reparations for slavery, proposed compensation for the Transatlantic Slave Trade, to assist the descendants of enslaved peoples and the communities affected
  • Reparations (website), website devoted to cause of compensation for the descendants of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
  • Reparations for slavery debate in the United States
  • Reparation (album), a reggae album by musician Eddy Grant
    • "Reparation", a song on that album
  • Acts of reparation, prayers for repairing the damages of sin
  • War reparations
  • World War I reparations, made from Germany due to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles
  • Reparations Agreement between Israel and West Germany, Holocaust reparations
Reparation (legal)

In jurisprudence, reparation is replenishment of a previously inflicted loss by the criminal to the victim. Monetary restitution is a common form of reparation.

Reparation (album)

Reparation is an album by musician Eddy Grant. The title of this album is a call for restitution for the transatlantic slave trade.

Reparation (psychoanalysis)

The term reparation was used by Melanie Klein (1921) to indicate a psychological process of making mental repairs to a damaged internal world. In object relations theory, it represents a key part of the movement from the paranoid-schizoid position to the depressive position — the pain of the latter helping to fuel the urge to reparation.

Usage examples of "reparation".

But if those who were recently baptized have injured their neighbor, they should be told to make reparation to God by works of penance.

He would try to negotiate with the Allies a cancellation of reparations, whose payment had been temporarily stopped by the Hoover moratorium.

If this were done, and as soon as he had settled the problem of cancellation of reparations and equality of armaments, he himself would retire.

He seemed to be on the eve of sensational successes in foreign policy with regard to both the cancellation of reparations and equality of armament for the Reich.

Part of these wounds were cicatrized and part still granulating, which shows that the process of reparation is as active in utero as elsewhere.

Your fault was that of a warm heart seduced by love, over which reason could have no sway, and your flight--the action of a soul crying for reparation or for revenge-fully justifies you.

However in the light of the statements made by his learned friend, Mr Fescue, the defence were prepared to apologize and make financial reparation for the damage done to the plaintiff and his wife and for the scorn, ridicule and consequential loss of his profession .

United States had stopped demanding reparations after a Freedom Party man gunned down the Confederate President in Alabama.

He went away, saying that I had insulted him in public, and that he would take care that the reparation I owed him should be as public as the insult.

The infamous proceedings of Narbonne disgusted me to that extent that, if I had known where to find him alone, I would immediately have compelled him to give me reparation.

I then told her that, having taken up the question of the reparation that was due to her aunt, I had so arranged matters that I was certain of being alone with her all the time my friend was engaged.

I did not accept this invitation till I had been pressed for some time, and I noted the remark of the ambassador, who said I owed Mengs this reparation for the indirect affront he had received.

I am going now to the bishop to give him an account of these proceedings, and make him understand that he owes you some reparation.

He does not intend to publish a libellous pamphlet upon you, but to accuse you before the courts, alleging that he wants reparation for the wrongs you have done his person, his honour, and his life, for he says you are killing him by a slow poison.

French in the Ruhr and the resumption of the burden of reparations touched off an outburst of anger and hysteria among the German nationalists, and the Communists, who also had been growing in strength, joined them in bitter denunciation of the Republic.