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    [Noun]  | "rep*a*ra*tion" | \ ˌre-pə-ˈrā-shən \


    1: a repairing or keeping in repair

    2: repairs

    3: the act of making amends, offering expiation, or giving satisfaction for a wrong or injury


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English reparacion, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin reparation-, reparatio, from Latin reparare;

    [Noun]  | "reparation" 


    1: payment to another for a loss or injury;


      * e.g., " ... the government instituted a program of reparations to the descendants of Native Americans who were driven from their land "



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     [ "Reparations" ]

    1: Allowing people to steal from citizens and stores openly without consequences.

      * e.g.,  ... 1: did. You see those 10 scholars who walked out of foot locker with more than 50 pair of jordans again? 2: Give them a break, they deserve reparations. 

     [ "reparate" ]

    1: To give reparations - compensation for insult or injury

      * e.g.,  ... Reparate Me for making my ancestors live as slaves, you White Devil! 

     [ "Reparation" ]

    1: An I am sorry payment.

      * e.g.,  ... Bob: Here is $50 for me hitting you. Charles: Thanks for the reparation. 

     [ "Reparation" ]

    1: An I'm sorry payment.

      * e.g.,  ... Wow, you stink, heres a dollar. Thanks for the reparation. 

     [ "Reparate" ]

    1: (1) to repair something neglected to its breaking point. (2) to reparate- the act of submitting reparations to those who were immorally uncompensated for events that brought harm and hardship to the specific minority group.

      * e.g.,  ... Suppose we want to show that America’s system is genuinely apologetic for administering policies that have harmed Black Americans for generations. In that case, the U.S. government should make motions to reparate those who have been affected by systematic errors. With similarities to Native American Reparations given by the U.S. government. 

     [ "Reparations" ]

    1: The two or three dollars you can inevitably lose because your order got colossally fucked up at McDonald's or Popeye's.

      * e.g.,  ... Fuck me, those dumbasses forgot the extra chicken nuggets and gave me the wrong size fries. And this is a fucking Diet Coke! 

     [ "Reparations" ]

    1: (American Race Relations):

      * e.g.,  ... Bernie Sanders, despite supporting democratic socialism, did not support the idea of reparations in his 2016 campaign. 


     [ "Reparations" ]

    2: The idea of countering the lingering effects of slavery and Jim Crow laws on black Americans (redlining, school-to-prison pipeline, housing and employment discrimination, etc.) with money, Welfare, and/or Affirmative Action. Popularized by Ta-Nehisi Coates in “We Were Eight Years in Power” (2017)

     [ "Reparations" ]

    1: What America owes Black American families for using them to build this country as unpaid labor while being beaten, raped and killed. Similar to the reparations given to Jews and the Japanese after WWII.

      * e.g.,  ... It’s pretty jacked up that as soon as freed slaves worked all that land so they could grow crops, President Johnson took their reparations back. 

     [ "Reparations" ]

    1: Oxygen for l.e.m type people, blm'ers, as well others who have nothing better to do during their 2 day bkackout than loot and riot

      * e.g.,  ... If you are neither a white l.e.m nor a blm'er yet still think reparations are your thing, then be proud that even in your sober state you're worse than a drunk elephant 🐘. You need a shrink asap. 

     [ "slavery reparations" ]

    1: no black person has had to suffer through slavery in america. therefore no black person should get reparations.

      * e.g.,  ... show me a slave and i'll pay his reparations...but you can't they're all dead. 

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