All redress synonyms
reΒ·dress
R r noun redress
- fair play β just and honorable treatment, action, or conduct: The political campaign was notably lacking in fair play.
- quittance β recompense or requital.
- medicament β a healing substance; medicine; remedy.
- countermeasure β A countermeasure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
- overcompensation β a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
- medicant β a healing substance; medicine; remedy.
- biologic β pertaining to biology.
- defrayment β payment of some or all charges or expenses.
- wellbeing β a good or satisfactory condition of existence; a state characterized by health, happiness, and prosperity; welfare: to influence the well-being of the nation and its people.
- amortization β the process of amortizing a debt
- medication β the use or application of medicine.
- biologics β biological products such as vaccines and therapeutic sera, used to induce immunity to infectious diseases or harmful substances of biological origin
- apology β An apology is something that you say or write in order to tell someone that you are sorry that you have hurt them or caused trouble for them.
- legalization β to make legal; authorize.
- correction β Corrections are marks or comments made on a piece of work, especially school work, which indicate where there are mistakes and what are the right answers.
- justice β Donald, 1925β2004, U.S. poet.
- adjustment β An adjustment is a small change that is made to something such as a machine or a way of doing something.
- counterclaim β a claim set up in opposition to another, esp by the defendant in a civil action against the plaintiff
- legalisation β Alternative spelling of legalization.
- constitutionality β In a particular political system, the constitutionality of a law or action is the fact that it is allowed by the constitution.
- avengement β (rare) The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.
- counterstep β an opposing step or measure
verb redress
- get better β recover
- fine tune β to tune (a radio or television receiver) to produce the optimum reception for the desired station or channel by adjusting a control knob or bar.
- neutralise β to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
- counter check β a check available at a bank for the use of depositors in making withdrawals, orig. kept in supply on a counter
- countercheck β a check or restraint, esp one that acts in opposition to another
- ante up β If you ante up an amount of money, you pay your share, sometimes unwillingly.
- hold to β to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- get with it β (in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- negative β expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
- cough up β If you cough up an amount of money, you pay or spend that amount, usually when you would prefer not to.
- cancel β If you cancel something that has been arranged, you stop it from happening. If you cancel an order for goods or services, you tell the person or organization supplying them that you no longer wish to receive them.
- get it together β to achieve one's full potential, either generally as a person or in a particular field of activity
- make up β the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- mend β to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole, sound, or usable by repairing: to mend old clothes; to mend a broken toy.
- neutralize β to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
- counterwork β work done in opposition to other work
- make over β to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- comp β Comp is short for compensation.
- comping β a ticket, book, service, etc., provided free of charge to specially chosen recipients.
- counter-checking β a check that opposes or restrains.
- clean up one's act β to start to behave in a responsible manner
- counterpoised β a counterbalancing weight.
- fly in the face of β to move through the air using wings.
- comped β a ticket, book, service, etc., provided free of charge to specially chosen recipients.
- make amends β reparation or compensation for a loss, damage, or injury of any kind; recompense.
- adjust β When you adjust to a new situation, you get used to it by changing your behaviour or your ideas.
- outplace β to provide outplacement for.
- dosing β a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.