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To make something into something else
To remedy or set right (an undesirable or unfair situation)
“We need to redress the structurally induced economic and social inequalities among and within nations.”
To adjust in order to make equal or level
“The employer regarded its former policy of hiring trained outsiders as inadequate to redress the imbalance in its workforce.”
To make amends for a wrongdoing
“How do you plan to redress your gaff and get back to building a relationship with the farmers?”
To retaliate or exact revenge for a wrong or injury
“After Jim tells the woman that he will redress the murder of her husband, the woman, in essence, tells Jim to mind his own business.”
To neutralize or cancel by exerting an opposite and equal force
To retaliate or get revenge
Compensate, give in return
To cause to have no value or effect
To be reconciled after a quarrel
Plural for remedy or compensation for a wrong or grievance
“Natural and statutory law, a sense of justice, and logic explain why people seek redress for wrongs suffered.”
Plural for retaliation or revenge exacted for a wrong or injury
“It leaves States, which think themselves aggrieved, and which have exhausted all peaceable methods of satisfaction, to exact redress for themselves by force.”
Plural for the action or process of correcting something
Plural for a means of counteracting or eliminating something undesirable
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