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# redress

«redress» in Mova's school dictionary: **To put right an unfair or harmful state of things** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (redresses, redressed, redressing); noun (redresses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To put right an unfair or harmful state of things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redress/#m1)

2) To make two things balanced again, as by taking from one side and giving to the other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redress/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a wrong is put right or a balance is restored; «redress the balance» means make two sides equal again

### examples

- The judge will redress the wrong done to the family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redress/#x1)
- The teacher gave extra time to redress the unfair test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redress/#x2)
- Jupiter bade him redress the balance between people and beasts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redress/#x3)

### note

In maths «redress the balance» means make two groups equal again: find the difference and move half of it across. It does not change the total.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «redress» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redress/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.