reparation.

Action or payment intended to repair a wrong, injury or damage.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• make reparation
• reparations for harm

On the page

The proposal sought reparation for harm while acknowledging that some losses could not be reversed.

Reparations were assessed through their purpose, recipients and practical effects.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Singular reparation; plural reparations. Also uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: responsibility analysis, evidence qualification, ethical distinction, institutional judgment. Disciplines: academic writing, ethics, legal-administrative reasoning. Commonness: moderately common.