Restitution
[,restɪ'tjuːʃ(ə)n] or ['rɛstə'tʊʃən]
Definition
(noun.) getting something back again; 'upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing'.
(noun.) the act of restoring something to its original state.
Edited by Bessie--From WordNet
Definition
(v.) The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification.
(v.) That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation.
(v.) The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body.
(v.) The movement of rotetion which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labor.
Editor: Segre
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Restoration, return.[2]. Indemnification, reparation, recompense, amends, compensation, requital, remuneration, satisfaction.
Typist: Loretta
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Restoration, return, indemnification, reparation, compensation, amends
ANT:Fraud, deprivation, wrong, robbery, abstraction, injury
Typist: Nora
Definition
n. act of restoring what was lost or taken away: indemnification: making good: (law) the restoration of what a party had gained by a judgment.—v.t. Res′titūte (obs.) to restore.—adj. Res′titūtive.—n. Res′titūtor.
Edited by Josie
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The founding or endowing of universities and public libraries by gift or bequest.
Checker: Peggy
Examples
- Back came all the remainder of the émigrés with them, eager for restitution and revenge. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Make restitution! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- For example: You brought a divorce case, or a restitution case, into the Consistory. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Duty on earth, restitution on earth, action on earth; these first, as the first steep steps upward. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Make restitution to an innocent and unoffending child, for such he is, although the offspring of a guilty and most miserable love. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The divine tribunal had changed its aspect for him; self-prostration was no longer enough, and he must bring restitution in his hand. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Any compensation--restitution--never mind the word, you know my meaning. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Checker: Tom