Vocabulary
Redress
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
remedy or set right (an undesirable or unfair situation).
Urdu meaning
ازالہ کرنا، درست کرنا، حق دینا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Commissions have been formed, reports issued, and governments have repeatedly promised redress, yet the families` cries for justice have gone largely unheard.
- And we need legal pathways for the victims of climate injustice to seek redress.
- It was time to genuinely redress their grievances related to the issue of missing persons, and grant them their political, social and economic rights, creating, above all, a sense of ownership in the future of Pakistan as a federation.
- It is the court of first instance: where rights are first asserted, arrests first challenged and legal redress first sought.
- Aggrieved people those who pay taxes, direct and indirect go to the courts to seek redress against the wrongs committed by errant public functionaries.
Synonyms
rectify, put/set/make right, correct, right, compensate for, put to rights, deal with, sort out,
Antonyms
absolve, excuse, condone, forgive,
Curator example
“the power to redress the grievances of our citizens”
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