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Indemnification

noun

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

An act of compensation for actual loss or damage or for trouble and annoyance.

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"Indemnification" Quotes from Famous Books

... debts there are nine hundred dollars for credit and five thousand dollars for champagne. And now all his creditors stand there prettily and open their mouths; all the thing in the house are hardly worth two farthings; and out of the house they find, as the only indemnification—a calash!" ...

— Stories by Foreign Authors • Various

... This matter may be brought within a very narrow compass, if we come to consider the requisites of a good peace under some plain distinct heads. I apprehend they may be reduced to these: 1. Stability; 2. Indemnification; ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... to the act of 2d March, 1827, to provide for the adjustment of claims of persons entitled to indemnification under the first article of the treaty of Ghent, and for the distribution among such claimants of the sum paid by the Government of Great Britain under the convention of 13th of November, 1826, closed their labors ...

— A Compilation of Messages and Letters of the Presidents - 2nd section (of 3) of Volume 2: John Quincy Adams • Editor: James D. Richardson

... should pay to Austria-Hungary as indemnification for the loss of government property, as a share of the public debt, and against all money claims, the sum ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) - Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes • Francis J. Reynolds, Allen L. Churchill, and Francis Trevelyan

... of some kind or another; a bad one for us, no doubt, and yet perhaps better than we should get the year after. I suppose the King of Prussia is negotiating with France, and endeavoring by those means to get out of the scrape with the loss only of Silesia, and perhaps Halberstadt, by way of indemnification to Saxony; and, considering all circumstances, he would be well off upon those terms. But then how is Sweden to be satisfied? Will the Russians restore Memel? Will France have been at all this expense ...

— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield

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