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noun
- 1. the action of making amends for a wrong one has done, by providing payment or other assistance to those who have been wronged: "the courts required a convicted offender to make financial reparation to his victim"
- 2. the action of repairing something: archaic "the old hall was pulled down to avoid the cost of reparation"
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1. a. : a repairing or keeping in repair. b. reparations plural : repairs. 2. a. : the act of making amends, offering expiation, or giving satisfaction for a wrong or injury. b. : something done or given as amends or satisfaction. 3. : the payment of damages : indemnification.
REPARATION definition: 1. payment for harm or damage: 2. payments made by a defeated nation after a war to pay for…. Learn more.
compensation in money, material, labor, etc., payable by a defeated country to another country or to an individual for loss suffered during or as a result of war: The U.S. government eventually disbursed reparations to Japanese Americans who had been interned during World War II.
While reparation has a range of meanings, they all convey the sense of fixing or making up for a past wrong. In contemporary usage, the plural form is more common than the singular. Victims of a crime, for example, may receive reparations from the perpetrators.
noun. formal us / ˌrep.əˈreɪ.ʃ ə n / uk / ˌrep.əˈreɪ.ʃ ə n / Add to word list. [ C or U ] payment for harm or damage: The company had to make reparation to those who suffered ill health as a result of chemical pollution. reparations [ plural ] history specialized.
a making of amends; making up for a wrong or injury. 3. a. anything paid or done to make up for something else; compensation. b. [usually pl.] compensation by a nation defeated in a war for economic losses suffered by the victor or for crimes committed against individuals, payable in money, labor, goods, etc.
1. the act or process of making amends: an injury admitting of no reparation. 2. ( usually plural) compensation exacted as an indemnity from a defeated nation by the victors: esp the compensation demanded of Germany by the Treaty of Versailles after World War I.
REPARATION meaning: 1 : money that a country or group that loses a war pays because of the damage, injury, deaths, etc., it has caused; 2 : something that is done or given as a way of correcting a mistake that you have made or a bad situation that you have caused.
Definition of reparation noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
An act of replacing or fixing parts of an object or structure in order to keep it in repair, or of restoring an object or structure to good condition by making repairs. Also: a part that has been repaired. Also in extended use. Chiefly in plural. Cf. repair n.2 2b.
