restitution

  • 61restitution of conjugal rights — An ecclesiastical suit to compel a husband or wife who had deserted the other spouse to return and live with the spouse who had been deserted. See restitution of consortium …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 62restitution — The process of determining the true planimetric position of objects whose images appear on photographs …

    Military dictionary

  • 63restitution — n. [L. re, back; statuare, to put] Rejoining broken chromosomes, thereby restoring prebreakage structure …

    Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

  • 64restitution — noun a process of compensation for losses. Syn: recompense …

    Wiktionary

  • 65Restitution — In cytogenetics, the spontaneous rejoining of broken chromosomes to reconstitute the original chromosome configuration. * * * In obstetrics, the return of the rotated head of the fetus to its natural relation with the shoulders after its… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 66restitution — Synonyms and related words: about face, amends, atonement, backing, backsliding, balancing, blood money, commutation, compensation, composition, compromise, consideration, counteraction, counterbalancing, damages, disenchantment, expiation,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 67Restitution —    Procédure pénale: remise à leurs propriétaires d objets volés, détournés ou saisis comme pièces à conviction …

    Lexique de Termes Juridiques

  • 68Restitution — Genoprettelse, helbredelse, tilbagegivelse …

    Danske encyklopædi

  • 69restitution — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. restoration, reparation, amends, amende honorable; atonement, redemption; remuneration; recovery, repossession; return, compensation; making good; rehabilitation; indemnification; retrieval; repair.… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 70Restitution — ◆ Re|sti|tu|ti|on 〈f.; Gen.: , Pl.: en〉 1. Wiederherstellung 2. Rückerstattung (beschlagnahmter od. geraubter Gegenstände) [Etym.: <lat. restitutio »Wiederherstellung, Rückgabe«; zu restituere »wieder hinstellen«]   ◆ Die Buchstabenfolge… …

    Lexikalische Deutsches Wörterbuch