different between repairing vs reparation

English

Verb

repairing

1. present participle of repair

Noun

repairing (plural repairings)

1. The act by which something is repaired; a mending.
   • 1800, James Jones Morgan, Epistolary Correspondence (page 14)

     […] he would not consent to raise any part of the money advanced on the gates, notwithstanding the necessity of the repairings, and the conveniences which would ensue to the school from it.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reparatio, reparationis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

reparation (countable and uncountable, plural reparations)

1. (usually in the plural) A payment of time, effort or money to undo past transgression(s).

   • I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able.

2. (archaic) The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired.

   the reparation of a bridge or of a highway

   • 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

     The church at Lichfield, in which we had a seat, wanted reparation, so I was to go and find a seat in other churches; and having bad eyes, and being awkward about this, I used to go and read in the fields on Sunday.

Synonyms

• (a payment): restitution, compensation, amends, satisfaction
• (a renewing): restoration, repair

Related terms

• repair
• reparative

Translations

See also

• war reparations

Anagrams

• Praetorian, Prætorian, praetorian, prætorian

Swedish

Etymology

reparera +? -tion

Noun

reparation c

1. a repair (mending something broken)

Declension