restitutions

Noun

restitution (countable and uncountable, plural restitutions)

1. A process of compensation for losses.
2. The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury.
   • A restitution of ancient rights unto the crown.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 […]...

   Synonyms:

   indemnification, recompense

3. A return or restoration to a previous condition or position.
   • the restitution of an elastic body

   Synonyms:

   deconversion, regression, step back, restoration, reversion

4. That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroyed; compensation.
   • 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.1998 December 19, “Restitution and the Problem of Stolen Art”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2021

   Synonyms:

   amends, recompense, remuneration, reparation, acquittal, assyth, bote, compensation, indemnification, indemnity

5. 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.