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redeem

/ri-deem/US // rɪˈdim //UK // (rɪˈdiːm) //

赎回,挽回,兑换,赎罪

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to buy or pay off; clear by payment: to redeem a mortgage.
    • : to buy back, as after a tax sale or a mortgage foreclosure.
    • : to recover by payment or other satisfaction: to redeem a pawned watch.
    • : to exchange for money or goods.
    • : to convert into specie.
    • : to discharge or fulfill.
    • : to make up for; make amends for; offset: His bravery redeemed his youthful idleness.
    • : to obtain the release or restoration of, as from captivity, by paying a ransom.
    • : Theology. to deliver from sin and its consequences by means of a sacrifice offered for the sinner.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbrecover possession
Forms: redeemed, redeeming
verbatone for; compensate
Forms: redeemed, redeeming

Examples

  • If the company grows without raising additional equity funding, founders redeem most of the equity right, based on a pre-agreed return amount.

  • It was an opportunity, eight months after the United States confirmed its first coronavirus case, to redeem the nation’s devastating failures in organizing a regimen of testing, contact tracing and equipping medical workers with protective gear.

  • Tucker redeemed himself by connecting from 51 yards with just more than four minutes left.

  • Even when customers use them, there’s often either a small balance left on gift cards that’s never redeemed, or they spend additional cash beyond the card balance to get the product they want.

  • Tap Network aims to solve this problem by allowing customers to spend those points through a broader network of rewards, which can usually be redeemed at a lower point level.

  • Sports drinks and coconut water, which is lower in sugar, can also redeem electrolytes lost while drinking, says White.

  • Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) may have drawn wide attention and praise for their REDEEM Act.

  • In all of this lies the chance, also, for FIFA to redeem itself.

  • Now, thanks to a military man he fired, retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal, he has a chance to redeem himself.

  • And that means it has to potential to redeem Christie—or make his already-hellish 2014 much, much worse.

  • He had to do something, for although all his land had been foreclosed on, he had two years to redeem the same.

  • And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the mighty.

  • Any person who is interested in a mortgaged estate has the right to redeem it; heirs, devisees, creditors.

  • But she seems able to take care of herself, and with that face and form, I guess she can redeem her fortunes any way she chooses.

  • The French war indemnity enabled him to redeem a considerable portion of the state debt and to remit certain taxes.