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								compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury an act for which there is no reparation
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								(usually plural) compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors
 Germany was unable to pay the reparations demanded after World War I
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								the act of putting something in working order again
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								something done or paid in expiation of a wrong
 
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