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reparation (Noun) A payment of time, effort or money to undo past transgression(s). reparation (Noun) The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway. Origin: From reparationem, from reparatio.
âCollectiveâ is used to qualify, on the one hand, the âreparations,â i.e., the types of goods distributed or the mode of distributing them, and, on the other, the âsubjectâ that receives them, namely, collectivities, including legal subjects. Familiar examples of âcollective reparationsâ in the latter sense abound.