(v. t.) To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.
(v. t.) To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.
(v. t.) To regain by performing the obligation or condition stated; to discharge the obligation mentioned in, as a promissory note, bond, or other evidence of debt; as, to redeem bank notes with coin.
(v. t.) To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like.
(v. t.) Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
(v. t.) To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
(v. t.) To pay the penalty of; to make amends for; to serve as an equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate; as, to redeem an error.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to recent knowledge the offer of informations which smaller for the routine form of the ECG-evaluation may be extensively redeemed by the calculation of vectorial sizes, which presumes the machine evaluation of the ECG.
(2) Abbado sees this as meaning that music is both destroyed and redeemed by its temporality: it exists and is extinguished in a moment, but has the endless possibility of being created anew in time.
(3) She's not a particularly religious person but when she had been restored to life on that hospital table she felt she would have a chance to redeem some of the mistakes she had made.
(4) After savaging the childcare support available to poorer working parents through tax credits in 2011, the coalition last year sought to redeem itself with a first draft of the new subsidy scheme, which created some winners up the scale, but left many more vulnerable part-time workers better off not working at all.
(5) Where we revere and anthropomorphise such brutal predators as sharks, tigers and bears, we view these tiny ectoparasites as worthless, an evolutionary accident with no redeeming or adorable characteristics.
(6) There will be two added minutes for Argentina to redeem themselves.
(7) 2.28am GMT 15 mins Saborio seeks to redeem himself with a spot of helpful cheating, completely failing to take his distance at a Galaxy free-kick and somehow getting away with it - blocking the set piece near half-way and launching an RSL counter that concludes with Kyle Beckerman thundering a shot towards goal from the edge of the box.
(8) The Bank has been raising concerns about the potential liquidity risk in the financial system for some time but will now ask fund managers how they would handle a deluge of requests from investors to redeem their cash.
(9) Hart could only redeem himself by saving from Ibrahimovic and he did, diving low to his right to beat the ball out, and here was one blow made against the No10.
(10) She had a robust attitude when I grilled her on Lonely Planet's advice against walking up Corcovado to the Christ the Redeemer statue.
(11) Juventus 1-3 Barcelona | Champions League final match report Read more He redeemed himself soon after with a lunging challenge to break up another attack but Juventus overall looked rattled.
(12) It recalls the heyday of conscious or socially redeeming rap and will be hailed as a restorative for those resistant to recent hip-hop developments.
(13) Yet there is Samantha, bawdy as the Wife of Bath, always cheerfully horny and materialistic, utterly without Calvinic redeeming qualities, living at last with her devoted younger boy toy in LA in the Sex and the City movie – finally leaving him because she is just not cut out to mix her driving, unmediated sexual energy with commitment.
(14) "Gervinho will be redeemed when he can do it on a cold, rainy night in Stoke!"
(15) It wasn't divine inspiration – I didn't get a tap on the shoulder saying: "Now is the time to give up and redeem yourself" – I just started falling out of love with it.
(16) What else, after all, would be the redeeming feature of a joke like "What's worse than finding a worm in your apple?
(17) "In spirit and blood we will redeem you, O Bahrain ."
(18) And a war loan dating from the first world war was finally redeemed earlier this year!
(19) That miss allowed Kolarov to redeem himself by sending in the corner that Touré volleyed past Gomes at the near post, before Agüero sent the travelling fans into ecstasy, expertly heading in Bacary Sagna’s cross.
(20) Putin said: "I hope you redeem yourself in other areas."
Saved
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Save
Example Sentences:
(1) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.
(2) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
(3) There was a 35% decrease in the number of patients seeking emergency treatment and one study put the savings in economic and social costs at just under £7m a year .
(4) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(5) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
(6) It’s not to punish the public, it’s to save the NHS and its people.” Another commenter added: “Of course they should strike.
(7) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
(8) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
(9) Johnson said the move would save businesses £350m from not having to meet the more exacting standards, which will now only have to be met by buses.
(10) We believe our proposal will save taxpayers about £4m and reduce by about 11,000 the number of legally aided cases brought by prisoners each year.
(11) Thus, it is obvious that new measures will have to be taken if lives are to be saved in future events of this nature.
(12) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(13) Considerations on costs and benefits demonstrate that the treatment of severely injured patients, who otherwise would die, results in a considerable social and economic saving (approximately 90 million Swiss francs for the 316 trauma patients analyzed).
(14) As part of the shake-up, the rule that says only half can be saved in cash is being abolished.
(15) Patients treated with ciprofloxacin may need added coverage for anaerobes, but the drug's excellent activity against nosocomial pathogens and its availability in oral form allow for an early change to oral therapy without compromising effectiveness coupled with added savings and convenience.
(16) Given the financial crisis this government inherited, we had no choice but to make significant savings.
(17) To comply with these rules, interest is not paid on Islamic savings or current accounts, or charged on Islamic mortgages.
(18) Essaid Belkalem is live to the danger and saves his side's bacon.
(19) In the lowest prevalence scenario (0.02 initial prevalence), initiation of the program resulted in a projected savings of 2.3 life years per HIV-negative drug user, compared with 1.7 and 1.3 years under medium (0.25) and high (0.60) prevalence, respectively.
(20) He denied that the probation service budget, which has been protected so far from 23% cuts, would be a particular target, but said it was not yet making the same level of savings as was being required of the police.