reparation
13 synonyms for reparation, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — Payment or other compensation made to people who have been wronged, especially by a state to a group it has harmed. Usually plural: reparations.
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Synonyms by Meaning
1. noun
Payment or other compensation made to people who have been wronged, especially by a state to a group it has harmed. Usually plural: reparations.
“Campaigners have long demanded reparations for slavery.”
2. noun
The act of making up for a wrong you have done.
“He spent years trying to make reparation to the family he had injured.”
How to use reparation
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Formal, and strongly associated with historical and political injustice — slavery, colonisation, war. The plural reparations is far more common than the singular.
Etymology
Via Old French from Late Latin reparatio, from reparare 'to repair, restore'.
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