Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun redress

2 senses of redress

Sense 1
damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redress -- (a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury)
       => compensation -- (something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury))

Sense 2
redress, remedy, remediation -- (act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil)
       => correction, rectification -- (the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb redress

1 sense of redress

Sense 1
right, compensate, redress, correct -- (make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust")
       => change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")