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To remedy a wrong or compensate for a harm.

verb

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redress

The committee proposed a refund to redress the mistake.

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A neighborhood arts club discovered that a member had been charged twice for the same room booking. The treasurer began to reconcile the payment record with the booking log so she could identify exactly what had happened. She could rectify the duplicate entry, but the club also needed to redress the wrong done to the member who had paid the second request.

From Putting the Record Right.

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