restitution

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
restitution/restɪˈtjuːʃn/

▶noun

• 1 the restoration of something lost or stolen to its proper owner.

• 2 recompense for injury or loss.

• 3 the restoration of something to its original state.

  ■ Physics the resumption of an object's original shape or position through elastic recoil.

– derivatives
restitutive adjective.

– origin ME: from OFr., or from L. restitutio(n-), from restituere ‘restore’.