Synonyms for reparation
Most common
compensation amends restitution redress fixing mending repairment
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Restitution — A payment of time, effort or money to compensate for past transgression(s)
restitution, redress, amends, compensation, expiation, recompense, damages, apology, indemnification, atonement, indemnity, satisfaction, remedy, propitiation, remuneration, requital, redemption, reimbursement
3. Repair — the act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
A payment of time, effort or money to compensate for past transgression(s).
- n. 2
The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired.
the reparation of a bridge or of a highway
Related words
- Word family
- repair reparative
Forms
- Plural
- reparations → restitutions, redresses, compensations, expiations…
Example sentences
- compensation Felix's lawyer got him full and fair compensation.
- amends It's never too late to make amends for harm done.
- restitution Tom has been ordered to pay restitution.
- redress You have a right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
- fixing I'm fixing the radio which I found on my way home.
- mending She has been mending since she entered the hospital.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| reparation | falling | |
| compensation | falling | |
| amends | falling | |
| restitution | rising | |
| redress | steady | |
| fixing | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- fix1
- 4 letters
- mend1
- 6 letters
- repair2, fixing2, remedy3, amends2
- 7 letters
- damages3, apology4, fixture2, redress2, mending2
- 8 letters
- requital
- 9 letters
- atonement3, indemnity4, expiation
- 10 letters
- redemption3, recompense3, repairment
- 11 letters
- restoration4, restitution4
- 12 letters
- compensation4, satisfaction4, remuneration5, propitiation
- 13 letters
- reimbursement4
- 15 letters
- indemnification6
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (repair2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- réparation
- Italiano
- riparazione
- Español
- reparación
- Deutsch
- Reparatur