n. & v.
--n. (pl. -ies) (often foll. by for, against)
1. a medicine or treatment (for a disease etc.).
2 a means of counteracting or removing anything undesirable.
3 redress; legal or other reparation.
4 the margin within which coins as minted may differ from the standard fineness and weight.
--v.tr. (-ies, -ied) rectify; make good.
Derivatives:
remediable adj.
Etymology: ME f. AF remedie, OF remede or L remedium (as RE-, mederi heal)