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Look up: redress

  1. redress
    [Verb] Plural form: redresses. To redress a wrong means to set it right.
    Example: The teacher needs to redress the problem of absence amongst her students.
    Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary

  2. redress
    [n] - act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. redress
    time interval between the dressing of a grinding wheel and reaching inadmissible deterioration of its action(e.g.indicated by chatter or burning) Category: Iron and steel industries
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  4. Redress
    Re·dress' transitive verb [ Prefix re- + dress .] To dress again.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/31

  5. Redress
    Re·dress' transitive verb [ French redresser to straighten; prefix 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.� ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/31

  6. Redress
    Re·dress' noun 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; indemnificatio ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/31

  7. redress
    remedy noun act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. Redress
    In film, a `redress` is the redecoration of an existing movie set, so that it can double for another set. This saves the trouble and expense of constructing a second set, though they face the difficulty of doing it so the average viewer does not notice the same set is rused. Also there could be logistical problems, such as conflicting shooting schedules, continuity if the set isn't quite the same as it was (if it should be the same) or different ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redress

  9. Redress
    • (n.) One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser. • (v. t.) To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon. • (v. t.) To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise. • (v. t.) To dress again. • (v. t.) To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury;...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning


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16 March 2010

This day in history:
On 16 March 1978, the oil tanker the Amoco Cadiz, transporting 227,000 tonnes of crude oil, suffered a failure of her steering mechanism, and despite the efforts of the crew of a German tug boat and two unsuccessful towing attempts, ran aground on Portsall Rocks, on the Breton coast. The entire cargo spilled out as the breakers split the vessel in two, progressively polluting 360 km of shoreline from Brest to Saint Brieuc.This was the largest oil spill caused by a tanker grounding ever registered in the world. The consequences of this accident were significant, and it caused the French Government to revise its oil response plan (the Polmar Plan), to acquire equipment stocks (Polmar stocks), to impose traffic lanes in the Channel and to create Cedre. read more

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