RESTITUTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does restitution mean? 

• RESTITUTION (noun)
  The noun RESTITUTION has 3 senses:

1. a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

2. the act of restoring something to its original state

3. getting something back again

  Familiarity information: RESTITUTION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESTITUTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

amends; damages; indemnification; indemnity; redress; restitution

Hypernyms ("restitution" is a kind of...):

compensation (something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "restitution"):

relief ((law) redress awarded by a court)

actual damages; compensatory damages; general damages ((law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated)

nominal damages ((law) a trivial sum (usually $1.00) awarded as recognition that a legal injury was sustained (as for technical violations of a contract))

exemplary damages; punitive damages; smart money ((law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct))

atonement; expiation; satisfaction (compensation for a wrong)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of restoring something to its original state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("restitution" is a kind of...):

fix; fixing; fixture; mend; mending; repair; reparation (the act of putting something in working order again)

Derivation:

restitute (restore to a previous or better condition)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Getting something back again

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

regaining; restitution; restoration; return

Context example:

upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing

Hypernyms ("restitution" is a kind of...):

acquisition (the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "restitution"):

clawback (finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way)

Derivation:

restitute (give or bring back)

 Context examples 

Epithelial repair requires restitution and regeneration.

(Mucosal Healing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

For example: You brought a divorce case, or a restitution case, into the Consistory.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Their fundamental action is to promote epithelial-cell restitution within the gastrointestinal tract.

(Mucosal Healing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

I hastened to put myself between them, and to assure her that we would all take care that he should make the utmost restitution of everything he had wrongly got.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

During restitution, epithelial cells spread and migrate across the basement membrane to re-establish surface-cell continuity, a process that is independent of cell proliferation.

(Mucosal Healing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)