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Usage note

This is the customary abbreviation of this term as used in legal citation. See, e.g., The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Nineteenth Edition (2010), "Subdivisions", Table T16, p. 472-73.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /əˈmɛndz/

名詞

amends

1. plural of amend

名詞

amends

1. Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.

   Amends were made for the damage and no charges were filed.

   • 1903 December 26​, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:

     As to you, Mr. Carruthers, I think that you have done what you could to make amends for your share in an evil plot.

使用する際の注意点

• Many consider amends a plural-only noun, but historically and in some current usage the singular appears.
• Most commonly found in to make amends.

同意語

• (compensation): reparation, redress, restitution, indemnity

動詞

amends

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of amend

参照

• amends at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “amends”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Amsden, Edmans, demans, desman, menads