compensation(MONEY)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Costs & expenses
admission charge
aliment
all in
at cost
at someone's expense
bank charges
outgo
outlay
overrun
palimony
price point
pricing
remittance
reserve
RPI
spend
transfer fee
tune
upkeep
whack

redress | American Dictionary

redress
verb[ T ]
 fmlus/rɪˈdres/
to correct a wrong:
Affirmative action to help minorities is intended to redress wrongs.

redress | Business English

redress
verb[ T ]
 formaluk /rɪˈdres/us
to put right a wrong action, or give payment for something wrong that has been done:
The association had called for a substantial rise to redress a 30% decline in salaries.
 redress the balance
to make a situation fairer and more equal:
The code was intended to help redress the balance between powerful retailers and their suppliers.
redress
noun[ U ]
 LAWuk /rɪˈdres/ us /ˈriːdres/
money or something else that someone receives because they have been injured or treated badly:
Millions of personal and business customers could seek redress for bounced cheques and overdraft charges.
get/receive/obtain redress
financial/legal redress

Examples of redress

redress
Compensation equalizes or redresses a balance, and so, to speak of 'fair compensation' is entirely sensible.
The suggestion of ensuring that teaching has some focus on successful ageing would be helpful in redressing the balance of clinical work.
Shame, then, may affect public attitudes to risk, and may intensify public calls that a scandalous situation should be redressed.
What affirmative measures in the realm of language policy can char t the clearest course toward redressing these inequalities?
She faults social historians for investigating only the first two and sees her own study as redressing the balance.
The often inevitable loss of physical dignity which accompanies terminal illness was redressed by study participants in several ways.
Our findings imply that collective action can be an effective means of redressing resource degradation and increasing community wealth.
In this article, a series of steps is taken with the aim of redressing this situation.
In the present section, we work toward redressing this problem in providing an outline of the roles and responsibilities of clinical caregivers.
One of the major ways in which vulnerabilities can be redressed is through empowerment of the vulnerable.
He attempts to show that the new constitution redresses many of the institutional problems associated with strong executive authority in the absence of proper checks.
To this embittered youth, the military not only fails at redressing social wrongs; it also upholds the country's inequalities.
By implication, the balance should be redressed.
In particular, racial liberals may fear that expressing opposition to affirmative action might lend political support to the broader effort to weaken social policies aimed at redressing racial inequality.
As both religious and civil laws had a role to play in turning out good citizens, then a defect in the one had to be redressed in the other.
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