- the making of amends for wrong or injury done: In reparation for the injustice, the king made him head of the agricultural department.
- something done or given to make amends:The prosecutor has requested a reparation of $32 million to victims of the crime.
- Usually reparations .
- compensation in money, material, labor, etc., payable by a defeated country to another country or to an individual for loss suffered during or as a result of war: The U.S. government eventually disbursed reparations to Japanese Americans who had been interned during World War II.
- monetary or other compensation payable by a country to an individual for a historical wrong: The article is about reparations to Black people for the enslavement of their ancestors.
- restoration to good condition.
- repair1 (def. 7).
- the act or process of making amends
- compensation exacted as an indemnity from a defeated nation by the victors: esp the compensation demanded of Germany by the Treaty of Versailles after World War I
- the act or process of repairing or state of having been repaired
