Definition of "remedy" []

• Something, such as medicine or therapy, that relieves pain, cures disease, or corrects a disorder. (noun)
• Something that corrects an evil, fault, or error. (noun)
• Law A legal order of preventing or redressing a wrong or enforcing a right. (noun)
• The allowance by a mint for deviation from the standard weight or quality of coins. (noun)
• To relieve or cure (a disease or disorder). (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Perhaps the availability of this remedy is the reason those responsible for the website have taken steps to remain faceless."
• "As a curious nonlawyer, how come the remedy is an injuction and not a writ of mandamus?"
• "Such a remedy is available for copyright violations, but not contract breaches."