remedy

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"And what would you do to remedy this state of affairs?

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Definitions4

Parts of speech2

Quick take

act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of remedy gathered in one view.

noun

act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

noun

a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

verb

set straight or right; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for remedy.

noun

act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

noun

a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

verb

set straight or right; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"

See also: rectify, remediate, repair, amend

verb

provide relief for; "remedy his illness"

Example sentences

"And what would you do to remedy this state of affairs?

But that doesn't mean it is pointless to try and remedy any mistakes of the past.

Instead of asking itself how to remedy the root causes an example is made out of those that stood up.

As a browser-based but locally-hosted MUA, Mailpile might be the remedy to Thunderbird that we need.

Sometimes, Google exits markets for reasons that are unclear to many, and it needs to tangibly remedy that perception.

And technology itself doesn't offer an obvious remedy.

Cash flow issues happen frequently and consumer credit is often the cheapest remedy for solo freelancers.

Even though they would have been almost completely powerless to remedy the situation on STS-107, the higher-ups decided to continue on with the mission instead of addressing the concerns with the heat shields.

I have bumped into cases where the default rules basically say that the contract assigns the IP rights to the customer regardless of non-payment, with the remedy for the developer simply being to sue for payment.

They have 4 versions of a single game "Star Traders RPG".I wouldn't look at update frequency or an algo fluke as the culprit, but look how I could remedy this apparent repetition, both in game versions and game descriptions.

Of course, such cases are not billed hourly precisely because the whole point of a class action is to allow the courts to aggregate a bunch of little claims to allow for a practical remedy for cases that would not be economically worthwhile to pursue separately.

But the remedy needs to go to the source of the abuse and that source is a faceless, uncaring local government that has elevated cost-savings over fairness and, when caught as it has been here, is trying to pretend that it can impose a few regulations at the edges to solve the problem.

Therefore, if no-one notices a problem like this until after the planning submission, or perhaps fails to get someone higher up to take it seriously enough to change the concept design, then they will have to remedy it by using special anti glare coatings or just plain hoping it wont be too bad.