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reparation

UK/ˌɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃən/US/ˌɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃən/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,758 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: reparations

Reparation is payment made to make amends for harm done. Make reparation, war reparations, demand reparations.

In the plural it usually means payments between states after a war, which is its heaviest use. In the singular it is a moral word and can mean an apology or an act as easily as money.

Definitions of reparation

  1. 1nounreparationPayment made to make amends for harm done.C1

    “The treaty set a figure for reparation that the country could never pay.”

reparation is a payment.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    reparatio

  2. English, today

    reparation

Borrowed from Latin reparatio.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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reparation in the wild

  • Following their defeat in World War I, the Central Powers agreed to pay war reparations to the Allied Powers.

    World War I reparations

  • Bulgaria, having paid only a fraction of what was required, saw its reparation figure reduced and then cancelled.

    World War I reparations

  • War reparations are compensation payments made after a war by one side to the other.

    War reparations

  • War reparations can take the form of hard currency, precious metals, natural resources, industrial assets, or intellectual properties.

    War reparations

  • The bill, H.R. 40, would have created a commission to study the possibility of actual reparations to slave families.

    Slavery reparations scam

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.