restitution

From Old French restitucion, from Latin restitutio.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛstɪˈtjuʃən/
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restitution (countable and uncountable, plural restitutions)

1. (law) A process of compensation for losses.
2. The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury.
   • 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:

     A restitution of ancient rights unto the crown.

   • 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC:

     He […] restitution to the value makes.

3. A return or restoration to a previous condition or position.

   the restitution of an elastic body

   • 2011, Evangelos Tsotsas with Arun S. Mujumdar, Modern Drying Technology, Experimental Techniques - Page 314:

     The force–displacement curve of perfectly plastic contact partners does not show elastic restitution.

4. That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroyed; compensation.
   • 1998 December 19, “Restitution and the Problem of Stolen Art”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Valery Kulishov, Russia's restitution director, pledged his country's assistance in obtaining restitution for individual victims, and turned over three secret documents bearing on stolen or missing artworks.

   • 2024 May 4, Melanie Gerlies, quoting Erika Jakubovits, “New claimant to €35 mn Klimt emerges”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 18:

     “Restitution is a very delicate issue,” says Erika Jakubovits, head of restitution for the Jewish community in Vienna.

5. (medicine) The movement of rotation which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labour.

• (act of compensating): recompense, indemnification

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restitution f (plural restitutions)

1. restitution

• “restitution”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.