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# restitution

«restitution» in Mova's school dictionary: **giving back something that was stolen or lost to its…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (restitution — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal, law) Restitution is giving back something that was stolen or lost to its owner, or paying for damage you caused. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restitution/#m1)

2) (ethics) Restitution is making things right after doing wrong, by repairing or repaying. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restitution/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In ethics lessons pupils learn that saying sorry is good, but restitution goes further: if you broke a window, you help pay for it. In law, a judge may order an offender to make restitution. In the Bible, Zacchaeus the tax collector promised to pay back four times what he had cheated. Phrases: make restitution, pay restitution, restitution for damage.

### examples

- The judge ordered the boys to make restitution for the broken fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restitution/#x1)
- Zacchaeus made restitution by paying back four times as much. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restitution/#x2)
- Saying sorry is a start, but restitution is fixing it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restitution/#x3)
- The museum made restitution of the stolen paintings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restitution/#x4)
- She did extra chores as restitution for breaking the lamp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restitution/#x5)
- Restitution helps the victim, not just the wrongdoer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restitution/#x6)
- Apollo, by means of his all-seeing power, soon discovered who it was that had robbed him, and hastening to Cyllene, demanded restitution of his property. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restitution/#x7)

### note

Uncountable; formal. Everyday words: paying back, making up for, making amends. In maths word problems "four times what he took" means multiply.

### In the corpora

- [(22-11) But if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.627/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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