compensation
An amount given or received as recompense for a loss or injury. Compensation is a remedy available in many categories of law. For example, the law of torts is generally ...
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A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism
... For details of compensation payable when travellers are overbooked, see denied boarding compensation...
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Australian Law Dictionary (3 ed.)
...compensation Broadly, an amount given or received as recompense for a loss or injury. In conscience -based equity , compensation is the name for the remedy equivalent to damages ; at common law, both terms (damages and compensation) are used. Compensation is a remedy available in many categories of law. For example, the law of torts is generally regarded as a common law compensation scheme, as opposed to a statutory one, regulating liability for losses. Payment of compensation is one of the primary heads of damages available in tort. See Civil Law...
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A Dictionary of Agriculture and Land Management
... A sum of money paid by one party to another, usually in recognition of some kind of loss, injury, or...
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A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (2 ed.)
...use the vehicle and compensation is not payable under the Motor Insurers’ Bureau agreement in which case the maximum compensation that can be awarded by the court is £300. A court that does not award compensation must give reasons. Victims of criminal injury may apply for compensation under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme . Under the Theft Act 1968 , a restitution order in monetary terms may be made when the stolen goods are no longer in existence; this kind of order is equivalent to a compensation order. Compensation orders may be made in...
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Concise Medical Dictionary (10 ed.)
... n. 1. the act of making up for a functional or structural deficiency. For example, compensation for the loss of a diseased kidney is brought about by an increase in size of the remaining kidney, so restoring the urine-producing capacity. 2. financial redress for injury or loss caused, for example, by negligence , usually weighed against. the degree of harm...
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A Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering (2 ed.)
...compensation The improvement of the performance of a control system through the use of an additional control element , a compensator, frequently designed to modify the root locus of the...
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A Dictionary of Human Resource Management (3 ed.)
...compensation ( comp-and-ben ) is payment for work which ‘compensates’ the employee for the ‘disutility’ of labour. The rather negative connotation associated with the term has led some HR specialists to replace it with reward or reward management , more upbeat alternatives. ‘Compensation’ and ‘compensation and benefits’—‘comp-and-ben’—are also used to refer to the specialist activity involved in administering and managing remuneration systems and to the specialist group of managers who have responsibility for this area. This latter usage is particularly...
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A Dictionary of Law (10 ed.)
...1968, or (2) the offender was uninsured to use the vehicle and compensation is not payable under the Motor Insurers’ Bureau agreement. A court that does not award compensation must give reasons. Victims of criminal injury may apply for compensation under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme . Under the Theft Act 1968, a restitution order in monetary terms may be made when the stolen goods are no longer in existence; this kind of order is equivalent to a compensation order. Compensation orders may be made in addition to, or instead of, other...
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The New Oxford Companion to Law
...receiving ‘full compensation’. Indeed the effect is that not only will some victims receive less than full compensation for the harm they have been caused but some entirely innocent victims will receive no compensation at all if their particular loss is held to be unforeseeable. Further, compensation of any kind will be irrecoverable if the victim is merely one of a class of those suffering loss from negligence that amounts to public nuisance. But if the concept of full compensation is a fiction, so too is the very justification for compensation in the tort of...
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Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (3 ed.)
...form of restitution, compensation and satisfaction, either singly or in combination’. Art. 36 further provides: ‘(1) The state liable for an internationally wrongful act is under an obligation to compensate for the damage caused thereby, insofar as damage is not made good by restitution. (2) The compensation shall cover any financially assessable damage including loss of profits insofar as it is established.’ In its commentary on the draft arts. 36(2) and (4), the I.L.C. pointed out: ‘Of the various forms of reparation, compensation is perhaps the most commonly...
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A Dictionary of Nursing (8 ed.)
... [kom-pen- say -shŏn] n. 1. the act of making up for a functional or structural deficiency. For example, compensation for the loss of a diseased kidney is brought about by an increase in size of the remaining kidney, so restoring the urine-producing capacity. 2. financial redress for injury or loss caused, for example, by negligence; the amount usually corresponds to the degree of harm suffered. 3. ( in psychoanalysis ) the act of exaggerating an approved character trait to make up for a weakness in an opposite...
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A Dictionary of Education (2 ed.)
... The process whereby a candidate’s poor performance in one aspect of an examination or other assessment procedure may be made up for by their high level of performance in one or more aspects. This is sometimes applied, within university regulations, in the classification of degrees....
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A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
... Payment or recompense for something by one party that has an effect on the other. Contracts often state what type of events will entitle a party to payment. Compensable delays are delays that result from specific actions or defaults specified in the contract. Where contracts specify the type of delays that will result in additional payment or extension of time, any other action would not result in payment under the contract. Also where contracts state events that are compensable, only those compensable events will result in additional payment....
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Rena van den Bergh
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
... An injured Roman could, in later Antiquity, claim consequential damage as well as loss of profit suffered as a result of the damage or destruction of his property by using the actio legis Aquiliae ( InstJust 4, 3; Dig . 9, 2; CJust III, 35). In the case of personal injuries, medical expenses and loss of financial income could be claimed, but no compensation. Title 62 of the Lex Salica , written during the reign of the Merovingian King Clovis ( c .466–511), placed a value ( wergeld ) on every human being and piece of property. If a person...
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A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
... n. The act or process of making amends, or something done or given to make up for a loss. In psychoanalysis , a defence mechanism in which one attempts to redress a perceived deficiency that cannot be eliminated, such as a physical defect, by excelling in some other way. The Austrian psychiatrist Alfred Adler ( 1870–1937 ) attached great importance to it in his individual psychology , especially in his concept of the inferiority complex...
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The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)
... , essay by Emerson , published in Essays, First Series ( 1841 ); also, a poem by Emerson, published the same year. The idea of compensation is implicit in Emerson's thought, and involves his concept of the “ Over-Soul ”: “An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole.” Although the malicious are apparently rewarded rather than punished, the view that justice will be meted out in an afterlife is erroneous, for it “is not postponed…. What we call retribution, is the universal...
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David A. Fiensy
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics
... If a man or woman worked for another instead of for his or her own farm or craft, how was the work compensated? What sort of wages could one expect? Were the wages enough? What was the standard of living for such laborers? What were the threats to the worker’s living? Types of Wages. What we think of as money—coins—was first introduced in Asia Minor in the seventh or sixth century b.c.e. The Persian empire ( 539–332 b.c.e. ) helped spread the use of coins throughout the Ancient Near East. Before this time, people paid in food or precious metals....
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A Dictionary of Electronics and Electrical Engineering (5 ed.)
... network A network that is added into a control system in order to provide cascade and/or feedback compensation to stabilize a system (see diagram). See also compensator . Compensation networks ...
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Garner's Modern English Usage (5 ed.)
...compensation ; workmen’s compensation . These words contain a plural possessive, hence workers’ and workmen’s —not worker’s and workman’s . ( See possessives (a) .) Workers’ compensation now vastly predominates, doubtless because of a sensitivity to the sexism of the other. Another erroneously punctuated form is ⋆workers compensation . Current ratio in print ( workers’ compensation vs. ⋆worker’s compensation vs. ⋆workers compensation ): 23:1.5:1 ...
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Australian Law Dictionary (3 ed.)
...compensation levy A levy to fund compensation for some purpose related to the class of people on whom the levy falls. Thus a compensation levy is ordered to be paid by an offender who has been convicted of an offence in NSW, in addition to any fine or other penalty: Victim Support and Rehabilitation Act 1996 (NSW) s 79. Similarly a compensation levy is imposed on seafarer berths and payable by employers of seafarers by the Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1992 (Cth) s...
