redress

IPA: rɪdrˈɛs

The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.
A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.
One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
(film) The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

To put in order again; to set right; to revise.
To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
(transitive, obsolete) To put upright again; to restore.
To dress again.
(film) To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

Examples of "redress" in Sentences

If you cut off money (McCain-Feingold), then the mechanism of redress is removed.
While he admits the £30,000 maximum for redress is not high, he believes most cases will relate to small amounts of money.
P.S.: Because of fear of redress from the governments or any of their agencies, no other information is available at this time.
DB Cooper: P.S.: Because of fear of redress from the governments or any of their agencies, no other information is available at thistime.
While Senator Obama invokes “self reliance”, he calls on us to nurture our grievances and seek redress from a government powerful enough to give us all we want.
Reprieve is petitioning the Lahore High Court to demand redress from the Pakistani government, ministries and agencies for so far failing to uphold these rights.
I've also read the sequel, Itsuka, but it focuses mainly on them trying to get official redress from the government so it was historically interesting as a Canadian but a bit dry I thought.
He seized upon the best apartments, and carried himself with so much haughtiness, that, provoked beyond endurance, I ordered my horse, and, accompanied by my honest courtiers, rode to Rouen to obtain redress from the governor.