repair
/ɹɪˈpɛɚ/ noun A2- The act of repairing something. · I took the car to the workshop for repair.
- An act of correcting ("repairing") a mistake in communication.
- The result of repairing something. · If you look closely you can see the repair in the paintwork.
- The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
Plural repairs
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The central portion was in little better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided.
“What conditions have I forgotten, your excellency?” inquired the bandit, with the air of a man who, having committed an error, is anxious to repair it.
“Then all he has got to do is to endeavor to repair it.”
A short walk brought us to it, a bleak moorland house, once the farm of some grazier in the old prosperous days, but now put into repair and turned into a modern dwelling.
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