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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin reparātiō, reparātiōnis.
Pronunciation
Noun
reparation (countable and uncountable, plural reparations)
- (usually in the plural) A payment of time, effort or money to compensate for past transgression(s).
1950 January, “Notes and News: Est Locomotive Practice”, in Railway Magazine, page 58:A feature of locomotive operation on the Region de l'Est of the French National Railways, not only on the old Alsace-Lorraine lines, but also on the Est proper, is the wide use still made of ex-German engines received as reparations after the 1914-19 war.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: MSV Ontario:Biotic Leader: So how about if I kill Chairman Burns and finish this charade?
Chairman Burns: Please! I was trying to help you people!
Shepard: Let's not do anything we're all going to regret.
Biotic Leader: Why not? What have we got to lose?
Biotic Leader: Since the chairman here decided we didn't get reparations, we've got nothing left to live for!
Chairman Burns: But I've changed my mind! Seeing y-you all, it's c-clear that you all d-deserve...
Biotic Leader: You had your chance! Some L2s are nearly crippled from side effects of the implants, but you voted against reparations!
- (archaic) The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired.
- the reparation of a bridge or of a highway
1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.:The church at Lichfield, in which we had a seat, wanted reparation, so I was to go and find a seat in other churches; and having bad eyes, and being awkward about this, I used to go and read in the fields on Sunday.
Synonyms
Translations
payment to compensate for transgressions
- Bulgarian: обезщете́ние (bg) n (obezšteténie), репара́ция (bg) f (reparácija)
- Catalan: reparació f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 賠償/赔偿 (zh) (péicháng), 補償/补偿 (zh) (bǔcháng)
- Czech: reparace f
- Dutch: herstelbetaling (nl) f
- Finnish: korvaus (fi)
- French: réparation (fr) f
- German: Reparation (de) f, Entschädigung (de) f, Wiedergutmachung (de) f
- Greek: επανόρθωση (el) f (epanórthosi), αποζημίωση (el) f (apozimíosi)
- Hungarian: jóvátétel (hu), kártalanítás (hu), kártérítés (hu), kárpótlás (hu)
- Japanese: 補償 (ja) (ほしょう, hoshō), 賠償 (ja) (ばいしょう, baishō), 償い (つぐない, tsugunai)
- Kazakh: репарация (reparasiä), төлем (tölem)
- Korean: 보상(補償) (ko) (bosang), 배상(賠償) (ko) (baesang)
- Latin: clārigātiō f
- Maori: moni whakaea, utu whakaea
- Portuguese: reparação (pt) f
- Russian: репара́ция (ru) f (reparácija) (for war transgressions), компенса́ция (ru) f (kompensácija), возмеще́ние (ru) n (vozmeščénije)
- Scottish Gaelic: dìoladh
- Spanish: reparación (es) f
- Thai: ค่าปฏิกรรม
- Turkish: tazminat (tr), reparasyon
- Ukrainian: репара́ція f (reparácija) (for war transgressions), компенса́ція (uk) f (kompensácija), відшкодува́ння n (vidškoduvánnja)
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renewing or restoring
- Bulgarian: попра́вка (bg) f (poprávka), възстановя́ване (bg) n (vǎzstanovjávane)
- Finnish: korjaus (fi), korjaaminen (fi)
- German: Reparatur (de) f
- Greek: επιδιόρθωση (el) f (epidiórthosi), αποκατάσταση (el) f (apokatástasi)
- Hungarian: javítás (hu), helyreállítás (hu), rendbehozatal (hu), rendbe hozás, újjáépítés (hu)
- Japanese: 修理 (ja) (しゅうり, shūri), 修復 (ja) (しゅうふく, shūfuku), 回復 (ja) (かいふく, kaifuku)
- Portuguese: reparo (pt) m, reparação (pt) f
- Romanian: reparare (ro) f, reparație (ro) f
- Russian: восстановле́ние (ru) n (vosstanovlénije), ремо́нт (ru) m (remónt)
- Scottish Gaelic: dìoladh m
- Spanish: reparación (es) f
- Thai: ปฏิกรรม
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See also
Anagrams
Swedish
Etymology
reparera + -tion
Noun
reparation c
- a repair (mending something broken)
Declension