restitution

IPA: rɛstɪtˈuʃʌn

(law) A process of compensation for losses.
The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury.
A return or restoration to a previous condition or position.
That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroyed; compensation.
(medicine) The movement of rotation which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labour.

Examples of "restitution" in Sentences

After ordering Kolinski to pay $9,000 in restitution and
Kolinski to to pay $9,000 in restitution and $2,095 in fees and fines.
More than $363 million in restitution is owed by Rothstein, Villegas and possibly others.
• Fraudsters who targeted churchgoers sanctioned; ordered to pay $11 million in restitution
Alvarez, 51, to state prison and ordered him to pay $4,150.79 in restitution to the water district.
The Salt Lake City, Utah court also ordered Calderone to pay $9,300 in restitution to the Army, wages he earned as the result of his promotion to major, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Lund.
Sebero, a former Bonner County, Idaho, sheriff's marine deputy, agreed to forfeit personal assets and to pay $950,000 in restitution, and could face 20 years and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced July
When U.S. District Judge Leon Jordan sentenced Farmer on Sept. 20 for that charge and four others involving his actions at the banks and with the car, the judge ordered him to pay the company about $6,500 in restitution for the fraudulent charges.