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If you guessed that reparation is related to the word repair, you were right. Both come from the Latin word meaning "to restore." While reparation has a range of meanings, they all convey the sense of fixing or making up for a past wrong.
Definition of reparation noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definition of reparation noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Meaning & use. 1.a. c1376–. An act of replacing or fixing parts of an object or structure in order to keep it in repair, or of restoring an object or structure to good condition by making repairs. Also: a part that has been repaired. Also in extended use. Chiefly in plural. Cf. repair n.2 2b. In quot. c 1376: (in plural) work undertaken in ...
Definition of reparation noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
reparations [plural] : money that a country or group that loses a war pays because of the damage, injury, deaths, etc., it has caused. The country paid millions in reparations. 2. formal : something that is done or given as a way of correcting a mistake that you have made or a bad situation that you have caused. [noncount]
OHCHR support for transitional justice. Issues in focus. Victims have a right to reparation. This refers to measures to redress violations of human rights by providing a range of material and symbolic benefits to victims or their families as well as affected communities. Reparation must be adequate, effective, prompt, and should be proportional ...
