Synonyms for redress
ˈri drɛs, rɪˈdrɛs; rɪˈdrɛsre·dress

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1. redress

   Synonyms:
   right, order, revise, amend, rectify, remedy, repair

   Antonyms:
   aggravate, impair, wrong, worsen, intensify, establish, confirm, reiterate, sanction, deepen, perpetuate

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1. damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redressnoun

   a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

   Synonyms:
   return, indemnification, restitution, damages, regaining, amends, reparation, remediation, indemnity, restoration, remedy, insurance

2. redress, remedy, remediationverb

   act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

   Synonyms:
   indemnification, restitution, damages, amends, therapeutic, remedy, remediation, indemnity, curative, cure

3. right, compensate, redress, correctverb

   make reparations or amends for

   "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"

   Synonyms:
   right, remunerate, chasten, pay, counterbalance, adjust, even out, overcompensate, discipline, recompense, correct, even up, rectify, indemnify, sort out, set, cover, compensate, pay off, even off, chastise, repair, make up, decline, castigate, slump, objurgate

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1. redressverb

   Synonyms:
   remedy, repair, relieve from, make amends for

2. redressnoun

   Synonyms:
   remedy, relief, amends, compensation, reparation, atonement

3. redressnoun

   Synonyms:
   stoneweed, puccoon-root (lithospermum arvense)

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1. redressnoun

   Synonyms:
   reparation, amends, indemnification, relief

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1. List of paraphrases for "redress":

   reparation, repair, remedy, compensation, rectify, repairs, reparations, remedies, correct, recourse, remedial, repairing, appeal, fix, remedying, resort, relief, correcting, address, reorganization, appeals

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1. Abraham Lincoln:

   Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.

2. Sara Hossain:

   There is every reason for an overhaul and comprehensive review of rape laws to take place, given the reality in Bangladesh of rape survivors not being able to get redress in these cases.

3. William Shakespeare:

   When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind oppress, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

4. Matthew Jury:

   There have been outrageous delays to date and it seems as though those delays would simply be interminable, the families are not content to simply wait forever for the inquiry to give a publication date and if (inquiry head John Chilcot) does not impose a timetable ... they will be seeking judicial redress.

5. Barbara Ehardt:

   Constitutionally, people should have the opportunity to seek redress from their government, when you go to seek redress and your government doesn’t listen to you, where do you turn? These people were seeking redress from the next best thing, which would be us.