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Damages   /dˈæmədʒəz/  /dˈæmɪdʒɪz/   Listen
Damages

noun
1.
A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury.  Synonyms: amends, indemnification, indemnity, redress, restitution.


Damage

noun
1.
The occurrence of a change for the worse.  Synonyms: harm, impairment.
2.
Loss of military equipment.  Synonym: equipment casualty.
3.
The act of damaging something or someone.  Synonyms: harm, hurt, scathe.
4.
The amount of money needed to purchase something.  Synonyms: price, terms.  "He got his new car on excellent terms" , "How much is the damage?"
5.
Any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right.  Synonyms: legal injury, wrong.
verb
(past & past part. damaged; pres. part. damaging)
1.
Inflict damage upon.  "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"
2.
Suffer or be susceptible to damage.



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"Damages" Quotes from Famous Books



... pearls, as I say, and aren't worth much. We were due to have more as a sheer matter of justice, but it wasn't to be got. So we must make the best of what there is. You'll bag L20 out of your lot if you sell them in the right place ashore. I reckoned my damages at L500, and I guess I've got here ...
— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne
... now he was in a position to demand a hearing and a compromise through his new ambassador, Mortimer, knowing that he could at last halt Plank by threatening Leila with this shameful danger. Plank must sign the truce or face with Leila an action for damages ...
— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers
... Claiborne, a former ambassador to two of the greatest European courts, was counsel for several of the embassies and a recognized authority in international law. He had been to Rome to report to the Italian government the result of his efforts to collect damages from the United States for the slaughter of Italian laborers in a railroad strike, and had proceeded thence to England on other ...
— The Port of Missing Men • Meredith Nicholson
... was rather too emphatic in demanding his immediate removal, and hinting at suspension. In lieu of that satisfaction, he would immediately institute proceedings in the Court of Queen's Bench for assault and battery, and place the damages at several thousand pounds. I listened to him patiently, then hinted that an illiterate fellow like him should not be making treasonable speeches. He bridled up at the word "illiterate," and repudiated the vile insinuation. He could read and ...
— My New Curate • P.A. Sheehan
... until recently, regarded as a criminal offense, and the only remedy that the employer had against the employee who willfully or who for good reason or for no reason refused to live up to his contract was an action for damages sustained. Of late years there has grown up in the former slave-holding states of the South a series of laws which abrogate all this well-known ...
— Peonage - The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 15 • Lafayette M. Hershaw


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