redress
C1CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General noun
Remedy or compensation for a wrong or grievance.
The families sought redress through the courts after the disaster.
Law noun
The remedying of a wrong, or the means by which a wrong is set right.
Victims of the abuse were left without any effective redress.
Business noun
A remedy or compensation for a wrong or grievance suffered at work.
The grievance procedure gives staff a formal route to seek redress.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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