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PRONUNCIATION OF REDRESSIVE

redressive  [rɪˈdrɛsɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REDRESSIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Redressive is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES REDRESSIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of redressive in the English dictionary

The definition of redressive in the dictionary is having a tendency to redress.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH REDRESSIVE


aggressive
əˈɡrɛsɪv
compressive
kəmˈprɛsɪv
depressive
dɪˈprɛsɪv
digressive
daɪˈɡrɛsɪv
expressive
ɪkˈsprɛsɪv
immunosuppressive
ˌɪmjʊnəʊsəˈprɛsɪv
impressive
ɪmˈprɛsɪv
inexpressive
ˌɪnɪkˈsprɛsɪv
nonprogressive
ˌnɒnprəˈɡrɛsɪv
oppressive
əˈprɛsɪv
progressive
prəˈɡrɛsɪv
regressive
rɪˈɡrɛsɪv
repressive
rɪˈprɛsɪv
retrogressive
ˌrɛtrəʊˈɡrɛsɪv
suppressive
səˈprɛsɪv
transgressive
ˌtrænzˈɡrɛsɪv
unaggressive
ˌʌnəˈɡrɛsɪv
unexpressive
ˌʌnɪkˈsprɛsɪv
unimpressive
ˌʌnɪmˈprɛsɪv
unprogressive
ˌʌnprəˈɡrɛsɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE REDRESSIVE

redpoll
redraft
redraw
redrawer
redrawn
redream
redress
redressable
redresser
redressible
redressor
redrew
redrill
redrive
redroot
redruthite
redry
redshank
redshare
redshift

WORDS THAT END LIKE REDRESSIVE

adessive
antitussive
comprehensive
concussive
dismissive
emissive
essive
excessive
inessive
massive
missive
obsessive
passive
passive-aggressive
percussive
permissive
possessive
recessive
submissive
successive
supermassive

Synonyms and antonyms of redressive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «redressive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF REDRESSIVE

Find out the translation of redressive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of redressive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «redressive» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

redressive
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

correctora
570 millions of speakers

English

redressive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

redressive
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

redressive
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

redressive
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

correctora
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

redressive
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

compensateur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Redressive
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Abhilfe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

redressive
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

redressive
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Redressive
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

redressive
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

redressive
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निवारक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

redressive
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

riparatoria
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kompensacyjna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

redressive
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

compensatorii
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επανορθωτικών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

corrigerende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gottgörande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

redressive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of redressive

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «REDRESSIVE»

The term «redressive» is barely ever used and occupies the 195.246 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «REDRESSIVE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about redressive

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REDRESSIVE»

Discover the use of redressive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to redressive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Troubled Pasts: News and the Collective Memory of Social Unrest
When official action is taken in response to a social breach, Turner (1981) calls it a redressive ritual. These rituals, he says, are attempts to seal the breach before it widens further and to reintegrate parties to the conflict. Redressive rituals are ...
Jill Edy, 2006
2
Language Teacher Supervision: A Case-Based Approach
on-record 1 without redressive action, baldly 2 do the FTA 4 with redressive action positive politeness 3 negative politeness off-record 5 don't do the FTA Figure 8.1 Possible strategies for doing face-threatening acts (Brown and Levinson, ...
Kathleen M. Bailey, 2006
3
In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art
The Prominence of Redressive Performance in the 1970s Redressive performance is certainly not particular to L.A. In fact, during the 1970s, redressive performance was the most prominent genre in the field of performance art — so much so ...
Meiling Cheng, 2002
4
Coping, Health and Organizations
One is redressive self-control (Rosenbaum, 1988), which is applicable in situations in which certain experiences, namely emotions, visceral reactions or intrusive thoughts, may interfere with the smooth execution of a target behaviour. We may ...
Phil Dewe, Tom Cox, Michael Leiter, 2003
5
The Deleterious Effects of Face Threat in Persuasion and the ...
Prior research suggests that face concerns are salient during persuasion and that face threat may hinder persuasion.
Marko Dragojevic, 2011
6
Transitional Justice Theories
What are the implications of this discussion for theorising transitional justice and redressive politics? Cultural and psychoanalytic perspectives on trauma introduce a complex system of mediations of subjective suffering through diverse psychic ...
Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Teresa Koloma Beck, Christian Braun, 2013
7
An Examination Into the Temporal Patterning of Emotions, ...
Females were expected to report a higher level of experiential self-control strategies and males to report using more redressive self-control strategies in general. Means and SD's redressive and experiential self-control are presented in Table ...
Kristen Leigh Kane, 2008
8
Bones of Contention: The Living Archive of Vasil Levski and ...
When speaking of the BAN debates as Turner's redressive phase, what is peculiar about the Bulgarian case is that the whole framework upon which the redressive mechanism was based was itself in a legitimacy crisis from the mid- 1980s on.
Maria N. Todorova, 2009
9
Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2012 CE
verbally or nonverbally, by representative members of the troubled social system. 40 Transculturally and transhistorically, redressive acts include rit- ual practices that are often interpreted as nonrational from a Greco- Roman rhetorical ...
Damián Baca, Victor Villanueva, 2009
10
Razor Wire Women: Prisoners, Activists, Scholars, and Artists
It opens up possibilities for telling new stories about crime because it focuses on storytelling itself as a redressive measure. The inspiration for this concept is the Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, a San Francisco–based ...
Jodie Michelle Lawston, Ashley E. Lucas, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REDRESSIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term redressive is used in the context of the following news items.
1
An open letter to News 24 commentators
While I am of the view that BBBEE should be amended to make it not only non racial but also more effective in addressing inequality, redressive laws can ... «News24, Jun 15»
2
Sens esthétique & sens empathique chez Cicéron : la cura scribendi
... affiliative politeness (lien et alliance), the redressive politeness (réparation et excuse). Or le genre même de la lettre se trouve être capable de tout englober. «Fabula, Oct 13»
3
Section 66A: From Mamata to Karti, the politician's favourite bludgeon
Mahapatra called the government's response a “mockery” of its assurance of “immediate redressive action”. But his recourse is limited. He has classes to teach. «Firstpost, May 13»
4
Rights rap on govt
“The government has made a mockery of its assurance of 'immediate redressive action' to the PMO. I will let Prime Minister Manmohan Singh know about it.”. «Calcutta Telegraph, May 13»
5
Babu language lands govt in a fix on joke
In bureaucratic parlance, “redressive action” would mean following the steps suggested by the panel. In this specific case, the rights panel had recommended ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Feb 13»
6
May 13, 1969: A regime crisis — Clive Kessler
The development of a massive and comprehensive, though in stated intention only a temporally finite, plan of affirmative action, in the name of redressive social ... «The Malaysian Insider, Jul 12»
7
Islamic Televangelism: Religion, Media and Visuality in …
Alexander, Bobby. 1997. “Televangelism: Redressive Ritual Within a Larger Social. Drama” in Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture, Hoover and Lundby, eds ... «ikhwanWeb.com, Apr 10»
8
Umor Revisited: a Diachronic Study of Sacrosanct Principles …
The drama is drawn out over the entire festival and is replete with a victory celebration (Turner's redressive action) and replenishment of life lost during battle ... «RedOrbit, Oct 08»
9
Marketplace drama: The 7-year war on downloading in 4 acts
The corporate response led to the third act, the application of redressive mechanisms to restore normalcy (the music industry's anti-downloading campaign and ... «EurekAlert, Feb 08»
10
SOCIAL DRAMA / There's nothing funny in black and white
The third stage is redressive action, "the culturally defined process that resolves the crisis," according to Brown University anthropologist William O. Beeman. «San Francisco Chronicle, Apr 07»

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