reparation

Borrowed from Latin reparātiō, reparātiōnis.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

reparation (countable and uncountable, plural reparations)

1. (usually in the plural) A payment of time, effort or money to compensate for past transgression(s).
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Preface”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able.

   • 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!

2. (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.

• (a payment): restitution, compensation, amends, satisfaction
• (a renewing): restoration, repair

• repair
• reparative

• microreparations
• war reparations

• Praetorian, Prætorian, praetorian, prætorian

reparera +‎ -tion

reparation c

1. a repair (mending something broken)