#compensation something given to recompense for loss or injury
supertype: recompense.payment payment or reward (as for service rendered)
subtype: overcompensation excessive compensation
subtype: workmen's_compensation__workmen'scompensation compensation for death or injury suffered by a worker in the course of his employment
subtype: reimbursement compensation paid (to someone) for damages or losses or money already spent etc.; "he received reimbursement for his travel expenses"
subtype: allowance.reimbursement a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses
subtype: travel_allowance a sum allowed for travel
subtype: mileage a travel allowance at a given rate per mile traveled
subtype: breakage reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use
subtype: costs__cost pecuniary reimbursement to the winning party for the expenses of litigation
subtype: emolument compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees); "a clause in the U.S. constitution prevents sitting legislators from receiving emoluments from their own votes"
subtype: blood_money.compensation__bloodmoney compensation paid to the family of a murdered person
subtype: damages__amends__indemnity__restitution__redress__redres a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
subtype: relief.damages (law) redress awarded by a court; "was the relief supposed to be protection from future harm or compensation for past injury?"
subtype: actual_damages__compensatory_damages__general_damages (law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated
subtype: nominal_damages (law) a trivial sum (usually $1.00) awarded as recognition that a legal injury was sustained (as for technical violations of a contract)
subtype: punitive_damages__exemplary_damages__exemplarydamage__smart_money__smartmoney (law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct)
subtype: double_damages twice the amount that a court would normally find the injured party entitled to
subtype: treble_damages three times the amount that a court would normally find the injured party entitled to
subtype: atonement__expiation__satisfaction compensation for a wrong; "we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store"
subtype: counterbalance__offset a compensating equivalent
subtype: reparation compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors
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