redress
verb · nounB1Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Động từ
verb- 1.
To put in order again; to set right; to revise.
Let us divide our labours; thou, where choice / Leads thee, or where most needs, whether to wind / The woodbine round this arbour, or direct / The clasping ivy where to climb; while I, / In yonder spring of roses intermixed / With myrtle, find what to redress till noon: […]
Sir; When last in Philadelphia, you mentioned to me your wish that I should re-dress a certain paper, which you had prepared. As it is important, that a thing of this kind should be done with great care, and much at leisure, touched and retouched, I submit a wish, that, as soon as you have given it the body you mean it to have, it may be sent to me.
- 2.
To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
- 3.
To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
[Magna Charta] [I]f we, our justiciary, our bailiffs, or any of our officers, shall in any circumstance fail in the performance of them, towards any person, or shall break through any of these articles of peace and security, and the offence be notified to four barons chosen out of the five-and-twenty before mentioned, the said four barons shall repair to us, or our justiciary, if we are out of the realm, and laying open the grievance, shall petition to have it redressed without delay: and if it be not redressed by us, or if we should chance to be out of the realm, if it should not be redressed by our justiciary, within forty days, […] the said five-and-twenty barons, together with the community of the whole kingdom, shall distrain and distress us all the ways possible, by seizing our castles, lands, possessions, and in other manner they can, till the grievance is redressed according to their pleasure; […]
- 4.
(obsolete, transitive)To put upright again; to restore.
- 5.
To dress again.
- 6.
(film) To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Đồng nghĩa: amends, indemnification, reparation, amends, acquittal, assyth, bote, compensation, indemnification, indemnity, mends, quittal, recompensation, recompense, redress, relief, remuneration, reparation, requital, requite, restitution, satisfaction
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)A possibility to set right, or a possibility to seek a remedy, for instance in court
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
- 5.
(film) The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
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thumb|upright=0.9|The First Amendment to the United States Constitution [[engraved on the facade of the Newseum in Washington, D.C. In part, it reads: "Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."]]