Indemnification

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Indemnification \In*dem`ni*fi*ca"tion\, n.
     1. The act or process of indemnifying, preserving, or
        securing against loss, damage, or penalty; reimbursement
        of loss, damage, or penalty; the state of being
        indemnified.
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              Indemnification is capable of some estimate; dignity
              has no standard.                      --Burke.
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     2. That which indemnifies.
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              No reward with the name of an indemnification. --De
                                                    Quincey.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  indemnification
       n 1: a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury [syn:
             {damages}, {amends}, {indemnity}, {restitution}, {redress}]
       2: an act of compensation for actual loss or damage or for
          trouble and annoyance

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "indemnification":
     amends, atonement, balancing, blood money, commutation,
     compensation, composition, compromise, consideration,
     counteraction, counterbalancing, damages, expiation,
     expiatory offering, guerdon, honorarium, indemnity, lex talionis,
     making amends, making good, making right, making up, meed,
     offsetting, paying back, peace offering, piaculum, price,
     propitiation, quittance, reclamation, recompense, rectification,
     redemption, redress, refund, reimbursement, remuneration,
     reparation, repayment, reprisal, requital, requitement,
     restitution, retaliation, retribution, return, revenge, reward,
     salvage, satisfaction, smart money, solatium, squaring,
     substitution, wergild