Definitions for reparation

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reparation rep·a·ra·tion

Spelling: [rep-uh-rey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌrɛp əˈreɪ ʃən/

Reparation is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 660 anagrams from letters in reparation (aaeinoprrt).

Definitions for reparation

noun

1. the making of amends for wrong or injury done:
2. 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.
3. restoration to good condition.
4. repair1 (def 7).

Origin of reparation

1350-1400; Middle English reparacion Middle French Late Latin reparātiōn- (stem of reparātiō), equivalent to Latin reparāt(us) (past participle of reparāre to repair

Examples for reparation

As reparation, the court ordered $563 to be paid out to Yang and required the clinic to post an apology on its website.

"Then you are aware that you owe me such a reparation," said he, in a voice tremulous with emotion.

That must needs have been no slight injury that suggests such a reparation.

Three years on, the demands for some kind of reparation have reached fever pitch.

The only reparation I want is for you to see rape as not my problem, but your problem.

Can you, from the brief minutes I have left, Eke out my reparation?

Ought you not to have exacted my admittance to the Comedie as a reparation for the insult?

I owe him reparation, and it shall be paid to the uttermost penny.

"You offered the only reparation in your power," he said at length.

I don't like the term "reparation," sir, except as a lever in the hands of counsel.