All restitution synonyms
res·ti·tu·tion
R r verb restitution
- make good — morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
- make amends — reparation or compensation for a loss, damage, or injury of any kind; recompense.
noun restitution
- quittance — recompense or requital.
- giveback — (in union negotiations) a reduction in employee wages or benefits conceded by a union in exchange for other benefits or in recognition of depressed economic conditions: Givebacks have not slowed the number of shutdowns.
- acquittance — a release from or settlement of a debt, etc
- overcompensation — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
- amortization — the process of amortizing a debt
- defrayment — payment of some or all charges or expenses.
- instauration — renewal; restoration; renovation; repair.
- counterclaim — a claim set up in opposition to another, esp by the defendant in a civil action against the plaintiff
- annuity — An annuity is an investment or insurance policy that pays someone a fixed sum of money each year.
- indemnification — the act of indemnifying; state of being indemnified.
- homecoming — a return to one's home; arrival at home.
- downs — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
- give-back — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- indemnity — protection or security against damage or loss.
- amends — recompense or compensation given or gained for some injury, insult, etc
- give-up — something conceded or relinquished; concession: Labor has balked at any more give-ups in the contract talks.
- amortisation — Alternative spelling of amortization.
- give up — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- atonement — If you do something as an atonement for doing something wrong, you do it to show that you are sorry.
- expiation — The act of making amends or reparation for guilt or wrongdoing; atonement.
- compensation — Compensation is money that someone who has experienced loss or suffering claims from the person or organization responsible, or from the state.
- defrayal — payment of some or all charges or expenses.
adv restitution
- meed — a reward or recompense.
- measure for measure — a comedy (1604) by Shakespeare.
- lex talionis — the principle or law of retaliation that a punishment inflicted should correspond in degree and kind to the offense of the wrongdoer, as an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; retributive justice.