redress

1. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury (synset 113311699)
   is a type of: compensation - something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)
   subtypes:

   • relief - (law) redress awarded by a court
   • actual damages, compensatory damages, general damages - (law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated
   • nominal damages - (law) a trivial sum (usually $1.00) awarded as recognition that a legal injury was sustained (as for technical violations of a contract)
   • exemplary damages, punitive damages, smart money - (law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct)
   • atonement, expiation, satisfaction - compensation for a wrong
   same as: amends, damages, indemnification, indemnity, restitution
2. Act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil (synset 100260020)
   is a type of: correction, rectification - the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
   subtypes: salve - anything that remedies or heals or soothes
   same as: remediation, remedy

1. Make reparations or amends for (synset 202525657)
   "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
   is a type of: alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
   subtypes:

   • over-correct, overcompensate - make excessive corrections for fear of making an error
   • aby, abye, atone, expiate - make amends for
   same as: compensate, correct, right

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