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reparation
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reparation
n.
restoration to good condition; compensation for a past injury; act of repairing, correction of problems or malfunctions
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Reparation
Reparation may refer to:
- Reparation (legal), the legal philosophy
- Reparations (transitional justice), measures taken by the state to redress gross and systematic violations of human rights law or humanitarian law
- Reparations for slavery, proposed compensation for the Transatlantic Slave Trade, to assist the descendants of enslaved peoples and the communities affected.
- Reparation (album), a reggae album by musician Eddy Grant
- "Reparation", a song on that album
- Acts of reparation, prayers for repairing the damages of sin
- War reparations
- World War I reparations, made from Germany due to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles
- Reparations Agreement between Israel and West Germany, Holocaust reparations
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reparation
Noun
1. compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury; "an act for which there is no reparation"
(hypernym) compensation
(derivation) compensate, recompense, repair, indemnify
2. (usually plural) compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors; "Germany was unable to pay the reparations demanded after Wordl War I"
(hypernym) compensation
(classification) plural, plural form
3. the act of putting something in working order again
(synonym) repair, fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending
(hypernym) improvement
(hyponym) darning
(derivation) repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on
4. something done or paid in expiation of a wrong; "how can I make amends"
(synonym) amends
(hypernym) expiation, atonement, propitiation
(derivation) compensate, recompense, repair, indemnify
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Reparation (die)
nf.
reparation, restoration to good condition; compensation for a past injury; act of repairing, correction of problems or malfunctions
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réparation
nf.
reparation, atonement, mending; repair, satisfaction
