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restitution

[res-ti-too-shuhn, -tyoo-] / ˌrɛs tɪˈtu ʃən, -ˈtju- /


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Darryl, who Cook says had been paying $50 per month toward the restitution, was given the same participation offer, but declined.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Cook waived Erika’s portion of the restitution in exchange for her participation in the documentary, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Court records show that Vasquez was ordered to pay restitution to several of the victim’s family members.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Long-running securities fraud charges were also resolved without an admission of wrongdoing under an agreement requiring restitution and community service.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

“Well, that sounds like a great way to earn the restitution money.”

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

"It must be ensured that there is also a state-of-the-art procedure for future private restitutions."

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2024

Under the court settlement, precious metals dealer Argent Asset Group and First State Depository Company, which were both owned by Mr Higgins, were ordered to make restitutions of $112.7m and pay a penalty of $33m.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2023

Hicks, who spoke alongside Osanna at the restitution conference, has argued that anthropological museums today must now become the public spaces to debate problematic collections, while permitting also case-by-case restitutions.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023

It has also undertaken two high-profile restitutions from its colonial past: In 2005, Italy returned to Ethiopia the massive, 160-ton Axum Obelisk, which Mussolini ordered sent to Rome in 1937 after his troops overran Ethiopia.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023

At this, the bishop returns to the subject of the restitutions in which he becomes engrossed; and declares that he is finishing a treatise or declaration in respect to them.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson


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