Definition of reparation in English:

reparation

noun ˌrɛpəˈreɪʃ(ə)nˌrɛpəˈreɪʃ(ə)n

mass noun

1The action of making amends for a wrong one has done, by providing payment or other assistance to those who have been wronged.
补偿，赔偿
the courts required a convicted offender to make financial reparation to his victim
法院责令定罪犯人向受害者支付赔偿金。
Example sentencesExamples
- Similar suits are to be filed in Illinois, Texas, and Louisiana, according to activist Deadria Farmer-Paellmann who has led recent campaigns for corporate reparations.
- It continues to be controversial today; in March, a United Nations committee recommended that reparations be paid to the approximately 400 ex-residents of Africville.
- This is not the tragedy of one man, but an exploration of the motives for revenge, and an interrogation of the notions of morality and punishment, wrongdoing and destructive attempts at seeking reparation.
- Now Harken is demanding that the Costa Rican government pay upwards of $12 million in reparations for its aborted exploits.
- He dismisses reparations for slavery as a joke.
- Financial reparation, she assumes, will be sufficient apology.
- In a personal sense their victimhood is short-changed because it is only a symbolic reparation and cannot fully appreciate the loss and suffering they have experienced and continue to live with.
- The Austrian government just authorized the payment of 18.2 million euros in reparations to the Jewish community of Vienna.
- A number of people in the business community expressed the sentiment that the owners should be held accountable for the incident and that reparations should be sought.
- Life owes me reparation for this, and I will see that I get it.
- For Kamala, this total enhancement is simply not envisaged in the reparation that society is prepared to make to her.
- Is there any way that we as a community can ever make reparation for this terrible rent in the social fabric?
- Yet one must not overestimate the political consequences; the gunboats were used to protect foreign nationals locally, and sometimes to exact reparation for injury done to them.
- She took a little flat over some shops in North West London and led a more restful, retired life, made possible by the monthly payments of refugee reparation the lawyer arranged for her.
- So if the information was obtained lawfully, the question has to be whether the leak damaged Apple financially, in which case one could expect them to be due reparation.
- Adam glanced at his friend's brooding expression, and sought to make reparation between the siblings.
- Frist should pay substantial reparations out of the vast fortune that has accrued from the Hospital Corporation of America, founded by his father and brother.
- Promoters claim that African-Americans are eligible for tax credits related to slavery reparations and charge a fee to prepare the claim.
- Since that time, there have been no reparations for those Magdalenes who worked without pay and no formal apology by the Irish Catholic Church.
- Do racialized groups or nations that have expropriated or exploited others in the past now owe reparations, and, if so, how should these be determined?
Synonyms
amends, restitution, redress, compensation, recompense, repayment, atonement
indemnification, indemnity, damages
rare solatium
1. 1.1reparations The compensation for war damage paid by a defeated state.
  （战败国支付的）赔款
  the Treaty of Versailles imposed heavy reparations and restrictions on Germany
  Example sentencesExamples
  It has so far paid more than $45 billion in compensation and reparations.
  The second half of the chapter contains a well-argued analysis of the reparations problem that Germany faced and its role in exacerbating the Depression in Germany and the fall of the Weimar Republic.
  The war reparations don't crush Germany, the Nazi party never comes to power, and the Great Depression becomes more of a mild recession than a major market crash.
  In The Phoenix, the first appearance that a Zeppelin airship makes is on its way to the Allies as part payment of the reparations bill Germany incurred in the Treaty of Versailles.
  Relations with Germany were strained by the Versailles Treaty, which regulated Germany's territorial losses and reparation payments, which Germany found too harsh but which the French public did not consider stringent enough.
  He tried to prove that the sums demanded for reparations were far in excess of what Germany could afford to pay and to ‘transfer.’
  Japan-Korea ties will hinge on what Tokyo expects and can ultimately get out of Pyongyang, especially in security assurances versus war reparations.
  We can illustrate this with a country with a trade account that is in balance but an external debt inherited from the past (prior trade deficits, war reparations, etc.).
  Questions about the implications of large unrequited payments from one country have been labeled transfer problems, for example, reparation payments from Germany to France after WWI.
  Following the armistice of 1944, Finland was obliged to pay reparations of 300 million gold dollars to the USSR, mostly in ships and other metal products.
  By 1924, after German default on reparations and tax increases, the economic situation was ripe for stabilization.
  The Dawes Plan adjusted reparation payments, and France withdrew from the Ruhr.
  While in a hospital suffering from mutism and hysterical blindness, he had a vision that he had a great mission to perform - that he was chosen by Providence to liberate Germany from reparations and make it great.
  The Treaty of Versailles, one of the peace settlements signed at the end of the First World War, required that Germany pay the Allies large sums of money as reparations for the damage caused by the war.
  The Seagraves show how Japan and its Emperor were ‘got off the hook’, and were excused from paying huge war reparation funds because the nation was ‘bankrupt’.
  Despite the calls from many for retribution, it was generally accepted that a severe system of reparations, as in 1919, would not be acceptable.
  In traditional accounts, the villain in the piece is Heinrich Brüning, a dour and ascetic Catholic whose austerity measures were designed to aggravate the slump in a bid to show that Germany could not pay reparations.
  This plan, created by Charles Dawes, an American, set realistic targets for German reparation payments.
  The economist Peter Warburton has likened these circumstances to the reparations a nation must pay when defeated in battle.
  The reparations section and the ‘war-guilt’ clause would spark unending controversy.’
2archaic The action of repairing something.
〈古〉修理，修补
the old hall was pulled down to avoid the cost of reparation
旧会堂被拆掉以省却修缮费用。
Example sentencesExamples
- Some were defamation cases, others sought reparation for the cost of delays and lost income.
Synonyms
restoration, fixing, fixing up, renovation, rebuilding, reconstruction

Derivatives

reparative

adjective ˈrɛp(ə)rətɪvrəˈpɛrədɪv

There are two surgical options - reparative or restorative.
Example sentencesExamples
- The amateur therapist in me thinks his magical thinking, even the black magical thinking, may actually be a healthy reparative fantasy.
- But I'm not sure my reparative fantasy of total self-sufficiency is entirely healthy.
- The continuous bleeding from the operated ear may due to some reparative granulation in the area or due to recurrence of the disease.
- Persecuted daily for being overweight and her freak-down-the-block-status, Gilman got though life via a series of reparative fantasies.

reparatory

adjective

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin reparatio(n-), from reparare 'make ready again' (see repair¹).

Definition of reparation in US English:

reparation

nounˌrepəˈrāSH(ə)nˌrɛpəˈreɪʃ(ə)n

1The making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.
补偿，赔偿
the courts required a convicted offender to make financial reparation to his victim
法院责令定罪犯人向受害者支付赔偿金。
Example sentencesExamples
- Similar suits are to be filed in Illinois, Texas, and Louisiana, according to activist Deadria Farmer-Paellmann who has led recent campaigns for corporate reparations.
- This is not the tragedy of one man, but an exploration of the motives for revenge, and an interrogation of the notions of morality and punishment, wrongdoing and destructive attempts at seeking reparation.
- Promoters claim that African-Americans are eligible for tax credits related to slavery reparations and charge a fee to prepare the claim.
- The Austrian government just authorized the payment of 18.2 million euros in reparations to the Jewish community of Vienna.
- Frist should pay substantial reparations out of the vast fortune that has accrued from the Hospital Corporation of America, founded by his father and brother.
- So if the information was obtained lawfully, the question has to be whether the leak damaged Apple financially, in which case one could expect them to be due reparation.
- In a personal sense their victimhood is short-changed because it is only a symbolic reparation and cannot fully appreciate the loss and suffering they have experienced and continue to live with.
- Life owes me reparation for this, and I will see that I get it.
- Yet one must not overestimate the political consequences; the gunboats were used to protect foreign nationals locally, and sometimes to exact reparation for injury done to them.
- For Kamala, this total enhancement is simply not envisaged in the reparation that society is prepared to make to her.
- A number of people in the business community expressed the sentiment that the owners should be held accountable for the incident and that reparations should be sought.
- She took a little flat over some shops in North West London and led a more restful, retired life, made possible by the monthly payments of refugee reparation the lawyer arranged for her.
- Do racialized groups or nations that have expropriated or exploited others in the past now owe reparations, and, if so, how should these be determined?
- Financial reparation, she assumes, will be sufficient apology.
- He dismisses reparations for slavery as a joke.
- Now Harken is demanding that the Costa Rican government pay upwards of $12 million in reparations for its aborted exploits.
- It continues to be controversial today; in March, a United Nations committee recommended that reparations be paid to the approximately 400 ex-residents of Africville.
- Since that time, there have been no reparations for those Magdalenes who worked without pay and no formal apology by the Irish Catholic Church.
- Adam glanced at his friend's brooding expression, and sought to make reparation between the siblings.
- Is there any way that we as a community can ever make reparation for this terrible rent in the social fabric?
Synonyms
amends, restitution, redress, compensation, recompense, repayment, atonement
1. 1.1reparations The compensation for war damage paid by a defeated state.
  （战败国支付的）赔款
  Example sentencesExamples
  Relations with Germany were strained by the Versailles Treaty, which regulated Germany's territorial losses and reparation payments, which Germany found too harsh but which the French public did not consider stringent enough.
  The reparations section and the ‘war-guilt’ clause would spark unending controversy.’
  The economist Peter Warburton has likened these circumstances to the reparations a nation must pay when defeated in battle.
  Following the armistice of 1944, Finland was obliged to pay reparations of 300 million gold dollars to the USSR, mostly in ships and other metal products.
  This plan, created by Charles Dawes, an American, set realistic targets for German reparation payments.
  By 1924, after German default on reparations and tax increases, the economic situation was ripe for stabilization.
  Questions about the implications of large unrequited payments from one country have been labeled transfer problems, for example, reparation payments from Germany to France after WWI.
  We can illustrate this with a country with a trade account that is in balance but an external debt inherited from the past (prior trade deficits, war reparations, etc.).
  In The Phoenix, the first appearance that a Zeppelin airship makes is on its way to the Allies as part payment of the reparations bill Germany incurred in the Treaty of Versailles.
  The war reparations don't crush Germany, the Nazi party never comes to power, and the Great Depression becomes more of a mild recession than a major market crash.
  In traditional accounts, the villain in the piece is Heinrich Brüning, a dour and ascetic Catholic whose austerity measures were designed to aggravate the slump in a bid to show that Germany could not pay reparations.
  The Treaty of Versailles, one of the peace settlements signed at the end of the First World War, required that Germany pay the Allies large sums of money as reparations for the damage caused by the war.
  The Dawes Plan adjusted reparation payments, and France withdrew from the Ruhr.
  The Seagraves show how Japan and its Emperor were ‘got off the hook’, and were excused from paying huge war reparation funds because the nation was ‘bankrupt’.
  The second half of the chapter contains a well-argued analysis of the reparations problem that Germany faced and its role in exacerbating the Depression in Germany and the fall of the Weimar Republic.
  Despite the calls from many for retribution, it was generally accepted that a severe system of reparations, as in 1919, would not be acceptable.
  It has so far paid more than $45 billion in compensation and reparations.
  Japan-Korea ties will hinge on what Tokyo expects and can ultimately get out of Pyongyang, especially in security assurances versus war reparations.
  While in a hospital suffering from mutism and hysterical blindness, he had a vision that he had a great mission to perform - that he was chosen by Providence to liberate Germany from reparations and make it great.
  He tried to prove that the sums demanded for reparations were far in excess of what Germany could afford to pay and to ‘transfer.’
2archaic The action of repairing something.
〈古〉修理，修补
the old hall was pulled down to avoid the cost of reparation
旧会堂被拆掉以省却修缮费用。
Example sentencesExamples
- Some were defamation cases, others sought reparation for the cost of delays and lost income.
Synonyms
restoration, fixing, fixing up, renovation, rebuilding, reconstruction

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin reparatio(n-), from reparare ‘make ready again’ (see repair).

单词	reparation
释义	Definition of reparation in English: reparation noun ˌrɛpəˈreɪʃ(ə)nˌrɛpəˈreɪʃ(ə)n mass noun 1The action of making amends for a wrong one has done, by providing payment or other assistance to those who have been wronged. 补偿，赔偿 the courts required a convicted offender to make financial reparation to his victim 法院责令定罪犯人向受害者支付赔偿金。 Example sentencesExamples Similar suits are to be filed in Illinois, Texas, and Louisiana, according to activist Deadria Farmer-Paellmann who has led recent campaigns for corporate reparations. It continues to be controversial today; in March, a United Nations committee recommended that reparations be paid to the approximately 400 ex-residents of Africville. This is not the tragedy of one man, but an exploration of the motives for revenge, and an interrogation of the notions of morality and punishment, wrongdoing and destructive attempts at seeking reparation. Now Harken is demanding that the Costa Rican government pay upwards of $12 million in reparations for its aborted exploits. He dismisses reparations for slavery as a joke. Financial reparation, she assumes, will be sufficient apology. In a personal sense their victimhood is short-changed because it is only a symbolic reparation and cannot fully appreciate the loss and suffering they have experienced and continue to live with. The Austrian government just authorized the payment of 18.2 million euros in reparations to the Jewish community of Vienna. A number of people in the business community expressed the sentiment that the owners should be held accountable for the incident and that reparations should be sought. Life owes me reparation for this, and I will see that I get it. For Kamala, this total enhancement is simply not envisaged in the reparation that society is prepared to make to her. Is there any way that we as a community can ever make reparation for this terrible rent in the social fabric? Yet one must not overestimate the political consequences; the gunboats were used to protect foreign nationals locally, and sometimes to exact reparation for injury done to them. She took a little flat over some shops in North West London and led a more restful, retired life, made possible by the monthly payments of refugee reparation the lawyer arranged for her. So if the information was obtained lawfully, the question has to be whether the leak damaged Apple financially, in which case one could expect them to be due reparation. Adam glanced at his friend's brooding expression, and sought to make reparation between the siblings. Frist should pay substantial reparations out of the vast fortune that has accrued from the Hospital Corporation of America, founded by his father and brother. Promoters claim that African-Americans are eligible for tax credits related to slavery reparations and charge a fee to prepare the claim. Since that time, there have been no reparations for those Magdalenes who worked without pay and no formal apology by the Irish Catholic Church. Do racialized groups or nations that have expropriated or exploited others in the past now owe reparations, and, if so, how should these be determined? Synonyms amends, restitution, redress, compensation, recompense, repayment, atonement indemnification, indemnity, damages rare solatium 1.1reparations The compensation for war damage paid by a defeated state. （战败国支付的）赔款 the Treaty of Versailles imposed heavy reparations and restrictions on Germany Example sentencesExamples It has so far paid more than $45 billion in compensation and reparations. The second half of the chapter contains a well-argued analysis of the reparations problem that Germany faced and its role in exacerbating the Depression in Germany and the fall of the Weimar Republic. The war reparations don't crush Germany, the Nazi party never comes to power, and the Great Depression becomes more of a mild recession than a major market crash. In The Phoenix, the first appearance that a Zeppelin airship makes is on its way to the Allies as part payment of the reparations bill Germany incurred in the Treaty of Versailles. Relations with Germany were strained by the Versailles Treaty, which regulated Germany's territorial losses and reparation payments, which Germany found too harsh but which the French public did not consider stringent enough. He tried to prove that the sums demanded for reparations were far in excess of what Germany could afford to pay and to ‘transfer.’ Japan-Korea ties will hinge on what Tokyo expects and can ultimately get out of Pyongyang, especially in security assurances versus war reparations. We can illustrate this with a country with a trade account that is in balance but an external debt inherited from the past (prior trade deficits, war reparations, etc.). Questions about the implications of large unrequited payments from one country have been labeled transfer problems, for example, reparation payments from Germany to France after WWI. Following the armistice of 1944, Finland was obliged to pay reparations of 300 million gold dollars to the USSR, mostly in ships and other metal products. By 1924, after German default on reparations and tax increases, the economic situation was ripe for stabilization. The Dawes Plan adjusted reparation payments, and France withdrew from the Ruhr. While in a hospital suffering from mutism and hysterical blindness, he had a vision that he had a great mission to perform - that he was chosen by Providence to liberate Germany from reparations and make it great. The Treaty of Versailles, one of the peace settlements signed at the end of the First World War, required that Germany pay the Allies large sums of money as reparations for the damage caused by the war. The Seagraves show how Japan and its Emperor were ‘got off the hook’, and were excused from paying huge war reparation funds because the nation was ‘bankrupt’. Despite the calls from many for retribution, it was generally accepted that a severe system of reparations, as in 1919, would not be acceptable. In traditional accounts, the villain in the piece is Heinrich Brüning, a dour and ascetic Catholic whose austerity measures were designed to aggravate the slump in a bid to show that Germany could not pay reparations. This plan, created by Charles Dawes, an American, set realistic targets for German reparation payments. The economist Peter Warburton has likened these circumstances to the reparations a nation must pay when defeated in battle. The reparations section and the ‘war-guilt’ clause would spark unending controversy.’ 2archaic The action of repairing something. 〈古〉修理，修补 the old hall was pulled down to avoid the cost of reparation 旧会堂被拆掉以省却修缮费用。 Example sentencesExamples Some were defamation cases, others sought reparation for the cost of delays and lost income. Synonyms restoration, fixing, fixing up, renovation, rebuilding, reconstruction Derivatives reparative adjective ˈrɛp(ə)rətɪvrəˈpɛrədɪv There are two surgical options - reparative or restorative. Example sentencesExamples The amateur therapist in me thinks his magical thinking, even the black magical thinking, may actually be a healthy reparative fantasy. But I'm not sure my reparative fantasy of total self-sufficiency is entirely healthy. The continuous bleeding from the operated ear may due to some reparative granulation in the area or due to recurrence of the disease. Persecuted daily for being overweight and her freak-down-the-block-status, Gilman got though life via a series of reparative fantasies. reparatory adjective Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin reparatio(n-), from reparare 'make ready again' (see repair¹). Definition of reparation in US English: reparation nounˌrepəˈrāSH(ə)nˌrɛpəˈreɪʃ(ə)n 1The making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged. 补偿，赔偿 the courts required a convicted offender to make financial reparation to his victim 法院责令定罪犯人向受害者支付赔偿金。 Example sentencesExamples Similar suits are to be filed in Illinois, Texas, and Louisiana, according to activist Deadria Farmer-Paellmann who has led recent campaigns for corporate reparations. This is not the tragedy of one man, but an exploration of the motives for revenge, and an interrogation of the notions of morality and punishment, wrongdoing and destructive attempts at seeking reparation. Promoters claim that African-Americans are eligible for tax credits related to slavery reparations and charge a fee to prepare the claim. The Austrian government just authorized the payment of 18.2 million euros in reparations to the Jewish community of Vienna. Frist should pay substantial reparations out of the vast fortune that has accrued from the Hospital Corporation of America, founded by his father and brother. So if the information was obtained lawfully, the question has to be whether the leak damaged Apple financially, in which case one could expect them to be due reparation. In a personal sense their victimhood is short-changed because it is only a symbolic reparation and cannot fully appreciate the loss and suffering they have experienced and continue to live with. Life owes me reparation for this, and I will see that I get it. Yet one must not overestimate the political consequences; the gunboats were used to protect foreign nationals locally, and sometimes to exact reparation for injury done to them. For Kamala, this total enhancement is simply not envisaged in the reparation that society is prepared to make to her. A number of people in the business community expressed the sentiment that the owners should be held accountable for the incident and that reparations should be sought. She took a little flat over some shops in North West London and led a more restful, retired life, made possible by the monthly payments of refugee reparation the lawyer arranged for her. Do racialized groups or nations that have expropriated or exploited others in the past now owe reparations, and, if so, how should these be determined? Financial reparation, she assumes, will be sufficient apology. He dismisses reparations for slavery as a joke. Now Harken is demanding that the Costa Rican government pay upwards of $12 million in reparations for its aborted exploits. It continues to be controversial today; in March, a United Nations committee recommended that reparations be paid to the approximately 400 ex-residents of Africville. Since that time, there have been no reparations for those Magdalenes who worked without pay and no formal apology by the Irish Catholic Church. Adam glanced at his friend's brooding expression, and sought to make reparation between the siblings. Is there any way that we as a community can ever make reparation for this terrible rent in the social fabric? Synonyms amends, restitution, redress, compensation, recompense, repayment, atonement 1.1reparations The compensation for war damage paid by a defeated state. （战败国支付的）赔款 Example sentencesExamples Relations with Germany were strained by the Versailles Treaty, which regulated Germany's territorial losses and reparation payments, which Germany found too harsh but which the French public did not consider stringent enough. The reparations section and the ‘war-guilt’ clause would spark unending controversy.’ The economist Peter Warburton has likened these circumstances to the reparations a nation must pay when defeated in battle. Following the armistice of 1944, Finland was obliged to pay reparations of 300 million gold dollars to the USSR, mostly in ships and other metal products. This plan, created by Charles Dawes, an American, set realistic targets for German reparation payments. By 1924, after German default on reparations and tax increases, the economic situation was ripe for stabilization. Questions about the implications of large unrequited payments from one country have been labeled transfer problems, for example, reparation payments from Germany to France after WWI. We can illustrate this with a country with a trade account that is in balance but an external debt inherited from the past (prior trade deficits, war reparations, etc.). In The Phoenix, the first appearance that a Zeppelin airship makes is on its way to the Allies as part payment of the reparations bill Germany incurred in the Treaty of Versailles. The war reparations don't crush Germany, the Nazi party never comes to power, and the Great Depression becomes more of a mild recession than a major market crash. In traditional accounts, the villain in the piece is Heinrich Brüning, a dour and ascetic Catholic whose austerity measures were designed to aggravate the slump in a bid to show that Germany could not pay reparations. The Treaty of Versailles, one of the peace settlements signed at the end of the First World War, required that Germany pay the Allies large sums of money as reparations for the damage caused by the war. The Dawes Plan adjusted reparation payments, and France withdrew from the Ruhr. The Seagraves show how Japan and its Emperor were ‘got off the hook’, and were excused from paying huge war reparation funds because the nation was ‘bankrupt’. The second half of the chapter contains a well-argued analysis of the reparations problem that Germany faced and its role in exacerbating the Depression in Germany and the fall of the Weimar Republic. Despite the calls from many for retribution, it was generally accepted that a severe system of reparations, as in 1919, would not be acceptable. It has so far paid more than $45 billion in compensation and reparations. Japan-Korea ties will hinge on what Tokyo expects and can ultimately get out of Pyongyang, especially in security assurances versus war reparations. While in a hospital suffering from mutism and hysterical blindness, he had a vision that he had a great mission to perform - that he was chosen by Providence to liberate Germany from reparations and make it great. He tried to prove that the sums demanded for reparations were far in excess of what Germany could afford to pay and to ‘transfer.’ 2archaic The action of repairing something. 〈古〉修理，修补 the old hall was pulled down to avoid the cost of reparation 旧会堂被拆掉以省却修缮费用。 Example sentencesExamples Some were defamation cases, others sought reparation for the cost of delays and lost income. Synonyms restoration, fixing, fixing up, renovation, rebuilding, reconstruction Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin reparatio(n-), from reparare ‘make ready again’ (see repair).
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