COMPENSATORY DAMAGES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compensatory damages mean? 

• COMPENSATORY DAMAGES (noun)
  The noun COMPENSATORY DAMAGES has 1 sense:

1. (law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated

  Familiarity information: COMPENSATORY DAMAGES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPENSATORY DAMAGES (noun)

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Meaning:

(law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

actual damages; compensatory damages; general damages

Hypernyms ("compensatory damages" is a kind of...):

amends; damages; indemnification; indemnity; redress; restitution (a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)