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 redress [rɪ'drɛs]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 赔偿, 补救, 矫正

vt. 纠正, 赔偿, 救济

[经] 赔偿(损害,损失等)




    redress
    [ noun ]
    1. a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

    2. <noun.possession>
    3. act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

    4. <noun.act>
    [ verb ]
    1. make reparations or amends for

    2. <verb.social> compensate correct right
      right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust


    Redress \Re*dress"\, n.
    1. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation;
    correction; amendment. [R.]

    Reformation of evil laws is commendable, but for us
    the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves.
    --Hooker.

    2. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as,
    the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy;
    reparation; indemnification. --Shak.

    A few may complain without reason; but there is
    occasion for redress when the cry is universal.
    --Davenant.

    3. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

    Fair majesty, the refuge and redress
    Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress.
    --Dryden.


    Redress \Re*dress"\ (r?*dr?s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + dress.]
    To dress again.


    Redress \Re*dress"\ (r?*dr?s"), v. t. [F. redresser to
    straighten; pref. re- re- + dresser to raise, arrange. See
    {Dress.}]
    1. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
    [R.]

    The common profit could she redress. --Chaucer.

    In yonder spring of roses intermixed
    With myrtle, find what to redress till noon.
    --Milton.

    Your wish that I should redress a certain paper
    which you had prepared. --A. Hamilton.

    2. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make
    amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.

    Those wrongs, those bitter injuries, . . .
    I doubt not but with honor to redress. --Shak.

    3. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything
    unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon. ``'T is
    thine, O king! the afflicted to redress.'' --Dryden.

    Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? --Byron.

    1. "There is just no control of the number of hours a person works," Chapman said in an interview. "There's no kind of order, no kind of redress."
    2. Still, if the agency allows the Boeskys to sell, he allowed, "that will help increase minority ownership of the mass media, and help redress the wrong Boesky did."
    3. South Africa's Archbishop Tutu warned of widespread black unrest if President de Klerk didn't redress "the deep wound" of land apartheid.
    4. Wherever possible the redress must be neutral to the overall budget.
    5. Equally important is the need to redress an imbalance between the development of the city and the rest of the region.
    6. The Anglo-Irish accord gives Ireland an advisory role in the Northern Ireland affairs in an effort to redress grievances of Roman Catholics in the Protestant-dominated province.
    7. 'It means Lloyd's can have an investigation, keep the report secret and Names have no redress.' Another plaintiff said he was considering taking Lloyd's to a European court.
    8. The court said the woman would not have legal redress unless the newspaper falsely reported demeaning circumstances surrounding the death.
    9. He asks the right question, the one about redress, the one that only appeals judges can answer.
    10. Romania has signed a European convention giving its citizens the right of final redress at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
    11. But incorporated businesses can only seek redress in the courts, which is often a prohibitively expensive route. The Treasury is likely to recommend the creation of an ombudsman scheme for all small businesses, incorporated or unincorporated.
    12. Similarly, Justice Kennedy questioned whether there is "an evolving standard" to determine what type of discrimination Congress intended to redress in 1866.
    13. I apparently have no redress, and this was one of Lloyd's biggest Names agencies.
    14. "Compensation was not the sticking point," Mulroney argued, noting that former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's Liberal government refused to even consider redress for Japanese-Canadians interned as wartime security threats.
    15. Shoddy goods must be exchanged or the purchase price refunded, unless additional legislation provides some other redress, the proposed law stipulates.
    16. Here in the land of Geronimo and Wyatt Earp and the OK Corral, a part of America never known for pussyfooting, the Arizona Senate on Monday begins the final act in a course of redress not seen in this nation in more than half a century.
    17. Robert J. Myers, generally acknowledged as the nation's utmost authority on Social Security, told Congress it should not pass legislation to redress such complaints.
    18. No government agency offered redress.
    19. In addition, the sender should pay all the fees, including those of the correspondent bank; A right of redress through a national banking regulator if there are problems; Improvement of cross-border links between national domestic clearing systems.
    20. That would amount to "frustrating the expressed wishes of 93% of your stockholders," the Rales group said, warning that it will "pursue all appropriate remedies in order to redress any of your ongoing transgressions."
    21. Or the redress may be insufficient if a crucial business function is affected. One reason for outsourcing is a belief in market forces and healthy competition.
    22. Equally striking is the inability of the Maxwell pensioners to seek redress against a government which may be in breach of legal obligations, for want of resources. A review of the system, says the committee, is a priority.
    23. Employers must register the religious make-up of their workforce with the commission and where it is out of balance with the population in the area, they will be ordered to take action to redress the imbalance.
    24. When a competitive harm is suffered by a business or a consumer, the antitrust laws permit redress through either public enforcement (the Justice Department or the Federal Trade Commission) or private enforcement (by the parties directly injured).
    25. If not superior competence, what kind of merit? Incredibly, Wedtech insiders felt a moral superiority, as victims deserving redress from an unfair society.
    26. The new prime minister, Mr Morihiro Hosokawa, pledged to redress the balance between the bureaucrats and elected politicians.
    27. But one does not redress female stereotyping by recasting males as nerdy dorks.
    28. Although China has tried to redress past wrongs, friction remains between the Tibetans and the Hans, China's ethnic majority, which continues to hold many senior posts in Lhasa.
    29. At last week's economic summit, the seven major industrial countries didn't make specific commitments to new policy action by the U.S., Japan or Germany to support world growth or to redress the global current-account imbalance.
    30. Have I any redress in law against him?
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