Reparation



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 赔偿, 补偿
• ［英］ n. 赔偿, 补偿 ( repairing, restoration, compensation)

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: Middle English reparacion, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin reparation-, reparatio, from Latin reparare
• Date: 14th century
• 1.
  • a. a repairing or keeping in repair
  • b. plural repairs
• 2.
  • a. the act of making amends, offering expiation, or giving satisfaction for a wrong or injury
  • b. something done or given as amends or satisfaction
• 3. the payment of damages ; indemnification; specifically compensation in money or materials payable by a defeated nation for damages to or expenditures sustained by another nation as a result of hostilities with the defeated nation — usually used in plural

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