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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...
    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. <...
    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://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  8. 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.) ...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  9. 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 expenses of constructing a second, new set, though they face the difficulty of doing it so the average viewer does not notice the same set is reused. Also there could ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redress

  10. Redress
    (charitable organisation) `Redress`, or `The Redress Trust` is a human rights organisation based in London, England that helps survivors of torture to obtain justice and reparation, in the form of compensation, rehabilitation, official acknowledgement of the wrong and formal apologies. In add...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redress



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9 February 2012

This day in history:
At 7.01pm on 9 February 1996, the IRA ended its 17-month ceasefire with a blast that rocked east London, injured more than 100 people, one critically, and thrust Northern Ireland back into political ferment. After one hour of shock and hectic checking with the security forces who, like the Government, were taken 'completely by surprise', Prime Minister John Major attacked the bombing as 'an appalling outrage'. He called upon Sinn Fein and the IRA to condemn unequivocally those who planted the bomb near South Quay railway station on the Isle of Dogs. read more

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