restitution
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English
Etymology
From Old French restitucion, from Latin restitutio.
Pronunciation
Noun
restitution (countable and uncountable, plural restitutions)
- (law) A process of compensation for losses.
- The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury.
- 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande , Dublin: Societie of Stationers, , →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: Society of Stationers, Hibernia Press, y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
- A restitution of ancient rights unto the crown.
- 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: ], →OCLC:
- He […] restitution to the value makes.
- A return or restoration to a previous condition or position.
- the restitution of an elastic body
- 2011, Evangelos Tsotsas with Arun S. Mujumdar, Modern Drying Technology, Experimental Techniques - Page 314:
- The force–displacement curve of perfectly plastic contact partners does not show elastic restitution.
- That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroyed; compensation.
- 1998 December 19, “Restitution and the Problem of Stolen Art”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Valery Kulishov, Russia's restitution director, pledged his country's assistance in obtaining restitution for individual victims, and turned over three secret documents bearing on stolen or missing artworks.
- (medicine) The movement of rotation 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 labour.
Synonyms
- (act of compensating): recompense, indemnification
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
legal: process of compensation for losses
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act of making good or compensating for loss or injury
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return or restoration to a previous condition or position
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French
Pronunciation
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Noun
restitution f (plural restitutions)
Further reading
- “restitution”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.