repairs

Noun (1)

repair (countable and uncountable, plural repairs)

1. (ambitransitive) The act of repairing something.
   • I took the car to the workshop for repair.
   1. (ambitransitive) An act of correcting ("repairing") a mistake in communication.
      • To function in conversation, children must develop the ability to appreciate and respond to listener feedback. This developing awareness is evident in sequences during which children provide repairs in response to indications that a message has not been understood.1986 March, Bonnie Brinton, Martin Fujiki, Diane Frome Loeb, and Erika Winkler, “Development of Conversational Repair Strategies in Response to Requests for Clarification”, in Journal of Speech...
2. (ambitransitive) The result of repairing something.
   • If you look closely you can see the repair in the paintwork.
3. (ambitransitive) The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
   • The car was overall in poor repair before the accident. But after the workshop had it for three weeks it was returned in excellent repair. But the other vehicle was beyond repair.

Noun (2)

repair (plural repairs)

1. (ambitransitive) The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
   • our annual repair to the mountains
2. (ambitransitive) A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
   • There the fierce winds his tender force assail / And beat him downward to his first repair.1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number)

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