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Definition redress

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman radresser, redrescer, redrescier and Middle French redresser (“to stand (someone or something) up; to stand up again; to rebuild, to repair something damaged, to rectify, to restore; to obtain redress; to cure; (of hair) to stand on end; to revise a judgment”) (modern French redresser), from Old French redrecier (“to stand (someone or something) up; to stand up again”), from Old French re- (“prefix meaning ‘again, once more’”) (from Latin re-, from Proto-Italic *wre (“again”); further etymology uncertain) + Old French drechier, drecier, dresser (“to dress; to stand up”) (from Vulgar Latin *dr?cti?re, a contracted form of *dir?cti?re, from Latin d?rectus (“straight”)).

Compare Catalan redreçar, Spanish redreçar (obsolete), Italian redreçare, redrezare, redricciare, ridirizzare (all obsolete), ridrizzare, Late Latin redressare (“to repair; to set right”), Old Occitan redreisar, redresar.

Verb

redress (third-person singular simple present redresses, present participle redressing, simple past and past participle redressed)

  1. To put in order again; to set right; to revise.
  2. To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury); 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.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To put upright again; to restore.
Noun

redress (countable and uncountable, plural redresses)

  1. The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.
  2. A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.
  3. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

Etymology 2

re- +‎ dress.

Verb

redress (third-person singular simple present redresses, present participle redressing, simple past and past participle redressed)

  1. To dress again.
  2. (film) To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
Noun

redress (plural redresses)

  1. (film) The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

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