Usually means: Correction or remedy for wrongs.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word redress:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. redress: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. redress: Merriam-Webster
  3. redress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. redress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. redress: Collins English Dictionary
  6. redress: Vocabulary.com
  7. Redress, redress: Wordnik
  8. redress: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. redress: Wiktionary
  10. redress: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. redress: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. redress: Dictionary.com
  13. redress (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. redress: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Redress (charitable organisation), Redress: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Redress: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. redress: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. redress: Rhymezone
  19. Redress: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. redress: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. redress: FreeDictionary.org
  22. redress: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. redress: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. redress: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. redress: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. redress: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. redress: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. REDRESS: Acronym Finder

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verb:  To put in order again; to set right; to revise.
verb:  To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
verb:  To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To put upright again; to restore.
noun:  The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.
noun:  A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.
noun:  A possibility to set right, or a possibility to seek a remedy, for instance in court
noun:  One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
verb:  To dress again.
verb:  (film) To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
noun:  (film) The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

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