#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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