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1. Compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury
   "an act for which there is no reparation"
    
2. (usually plural) compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors
   "Germany was unable to pay the reparations demanded after World War I"
    
3. The act of putting something in working order again
   - repair, fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending
    
4. Something done or paid in expiation of a wrong
   "how can I make reparation"
   - amends

Derived forms: reparations

See also: repair

Type of: atonement, compensation, expiation, improvement, propitiation

Encyclopedia: Reparation