Redress
noun
Act to make something right or correct it after a mistake.
The company has taken steps towards redress of past gender discrimination.
Often appears as...
- seek redress
- offer redress
verb
To correct or make up for something wrong or unfair.
Ways must be found to redress the balance in spending on healthcare.
Often appears as...
- redress the balance
- redress an injustice
noun
Payment for harm or damage.
She sought redress through the courts for the damage to her car.
Often appears as...
- seek redress
- legal redress
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Formal
Legal
noun
Act to make something right or correct it after a mistake.
The company has taken steps towards redress of past gender discrimination.
Often appears as...
- seek redress
- offer redress
verb
To correct or make up for something wrong or unfair.
Ways must be found to redress the balance in spending on healthcare.
Often appears as...
- redress the balance
- redress an injustice
noun
Payment for harm or damage.
She sought redress through the courts for the damage to her car.
Often appears as...
- seek redress
- legal redress
Usage tips
Formal
Legal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Action-Oriented
Refers to actual steps taken to fix a mistake, not just a promise or apology.
The CEO's plan for redress includes refunding affected customers.
Pro Tip 2/3Past Wrongs
Usually involves addressing previous errors or unfair situations.
The new policy is a redress for the company's historical pay inequality.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Immediate
Redress might not provide instant solutions but sets up the path for correction over time.
Victims are still awaiting redress years after the incident.
Pro Tip 1/3Action-Oriented
Refers to actual steps taken to fix a mistake, not just a promise or apology.
The CEO's plan for redress includes refunding affected customers.
Pro Tip 2/3Past Wrongs
Usually involves addressing previous errors or unfair situations.
The new policy is a redress for the company's historical pay inequality.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Immediate
Redress might not provide instant solutions but sets up the path for correction over time.
Victims are still awaiting redress years after the incident.
Pro Tip 1/3Action-Oriented
Refers to actual steps taken to fix a mistake, not just a promise or apology.
The CEO's plan for redress includes refunding affected customers.
Pro Tip 2/3Past Wrongs
Usually involves addressing previous errors or unfair situations.
The new policy is a redress for the company's historical pay inequality.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Immediate
Redress might not provide instant solutions but sets up the path for correction over time.
Victims are still awaiting redress years after the incident.
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What's an algorithm? -...
but then what? There isn't another full pair of people in the room, so line 2 no longer applies. And so, by this algorithm's end, n is still 2, which isn't correct. Indeed this algorithm is said to be buggy because it has a mistake. Let's redress with some new pseudocode. Let n equal zero. For each pair of people in room,
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When technology can read...
I think we're fighting a losing battle by trying to restrict the flow of information. Instead, we should be focusing on securing rights and remedies against the misuse of our information. If people had the right to decide how their information was shared, and more importantly, have legal redress
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How to Build an...
My vision is to redress the legacy of pollution by targeting frontline communities, not for pollution, but to become green zones. Green zones where we can incentivize community shared solar, electrification, green businesses, good jobs and worker cooperatives.
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Philip Howard: Four ways...
almost without our knowing, is our culture has changed. People no longer feel free to act on their best judgment. So, what do we do about it? We certainly don't want to give up the rights, when people do something wrong, to seek redress in the courts.
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Norman Foster: Building...
that will redress that, and will feed from the Gulf of Aqaba into the Dead Sea. And our translation of that, using a lot of the thinking built up over the 40 years, is to say, what if that, instead of being just a pipe, what if it is a lifeline?
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A blueprint for...
component of of a redress process for black American descendants of us slavery the final component is closure which is a point at which the culpable party in the victimized community come to an agreement that the debt has been paid
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Sarah Jones: What does...
Do I think there will ever be a post-racial world? I think, really, I can't talk about race without remembering that it is a construct in certain respects, but also that, you know, until we redress the wrongs of the past,
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The US is back in the...
Well, I think it's important part of this issue for many reasons, the most basic is just moral, you know, what is morally right. And how do you redress a wrong that has for too many years held people back,
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Liz Coleman's call to...
as areas of immersion that acknowledge differences in personal and professional objectives. But the balances redressed, our shared purposes assume an equal if not greater importance.
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How to disrupt...
discrimination which is a an incredibly precious idea to turn a policy that seeks to redress the white supremacy that is built into our nation to redress
Video examples
What's an algorithm? -...
but then what? There isn't another full pair of people in the room, so line 2 no longer applies. And so, by this algorithm's end, n is still 2, which isn't correct. Indeed this algorithm is said to be buggy because it has a mistake. Let's redress with some new pseudocode. Let n equal zero. For each pair of people in room,
Video examples
When technology can read...
I think we're fighting a losing battle by trying to restrict the flow of information. Instead, we should be focusing on securing rights and remedies against the misuse of our information. If people had the right to decide how their information was shared, and more importantly, have legal redress
Video examples
How to Build an...
My vision is to redress the legacy of pollution by targeting frontline communities, not for pollution, but to become green zones. Green zones where we can incentivize community shared solar, electrification, green businesses, good jobs and worker cooperatives.
Video examples
Philip Howard: Four ways...
almost without our knowing, is our culture has changed. People no longer feel free to act on their best judgment. So, what do we do about it? We certainly don't want to give up the rights, when people do something wrong, to seek redress in the courts.
Video examples
Norman Foster: Building...
that will redress that, and will feed from the Gulf of Aqaba into the Dead Sea. And our translation of that, using a lot of the thinking built up over the 40 years, is to say, what if that, instead of being just a pipe, what if it is a lifeline?
Video examples
A blueprint for...
component of of a redress process for black American descendants of us slavery the final component is closure which is a point at which the culpable party in the victimized community come to an agreement that the debt has been paid
Video examples
Sarah Jones: What does...
Do I think there will ever be a post-racial world? I think, really, I can't talk about race without remembering that it is a construct in certain respects, but also that, you know, until we redress the wrongs of the past,
Video examples
The US is back in the...
Well, I think it's important part of this issue for many reasons, the most basic is just moral, you know, what is morally right. And how do you redress a wrong that has for too many years held people back,
Video examples
Liz Coleman's call to...
as areas of immersion that acknowledge differences in personal and professional objectives. But the balances redressed, our shared purposes assume an equal if not greater importance.
Video examples
How to disrupt...
discrimination which is a an incredibly precious idea to turn a policy that seeks to redress the white supremacy that is built into our nation to redress
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Robert Green Ingersoll
American Lawyer
As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.
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Auguste Escoffier
French Chef
The painter, sculptor, writer, and musician are protected by law. So are inventors. But the chef has absolutely no redress for plagiarism on his work; on the contrary, the more the latter is liked and appreciated, the more will people clamour for his recipes.
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Sharyl Attkisson
American Journalist
We Americans like to believe we live in a free country with the right to use the justice system to ensure that government abuses are stopped or redressed. That's far from the truth, and it's an awful thing to experience first-hand.
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Federica Mogherini
Italian Politician
Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.
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Shereen El Feki
British Journalist
Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and to ensure they have access to legal services and redress through the courts.
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Benjamin Disraeli
British Statesman
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
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Elizabeth Montagu
British Writer
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
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Thomas Jefferson
American President
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
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Imran Khan
Pakistani Leader
Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
American Lawyer
As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.
Quote examples
Auguste Escoffier
French Chef
The painter, sculptor, writer, and musician are protected by law. So are inventors. But the chef has absolutely no redress for plagiarism on his work; on the contrary, the more the latter is liked and appreciated, the more will people clamour for his recipes.
Quote examples
Sharyl Attkisson
American Journalist
We Americans like to believe we live in a free country with the right to use the justice system to ensure that government abuses are stopped or redressed. That's far from the truth, and it's an awful thing to experience first-hand.
Quote examples
Federica Mogherini
Italian Politician
Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.
Quote examples
Shereen El Feki
British Journalist
Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and to ensure they have access to legal services and redress through the courts.
Quote examples
Benjamin Disraeli
British Statesman
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Quote examples
Elizabeth Montagu
British Writer
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
Quote examples
Thomas Jefferson
American President
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Quote examples
Imran Khan
Pakistani Leader
Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
Quote examples
Abraham Lincoln
American President
There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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