Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A recompense.
- noun In Scots law, a case in which the plaintiff pursues for a debt, and the defendant pleads compensation, to which the pursuer replies by pleading compensation also.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Recompense.
- noun (Scots Law) Used to denote a case where a set-off pleaded by the defendant is met by a set-off pleaded by the plaintiff.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law
Reparation for personal injuries.
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Examples
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Based upon the total recompensation package received by all Workers, including those who were not Outsourced, Downsized, or Pension-shriven.
Are Workers Getting Good Jobs?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And then possibly some recompensation because that should just be just plain illegal what they did to your lady parts.
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And then possibly some recompensation because that should just be just plain illegal what they did to your lady parts.
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On its list is: a government of national unity, the overhaul of the constitution, a properly organised election, recompensation for victims of Operation Murambatsvina and the relaxation of cross border regulations against Zimbabweans.
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Gracious, that has to be one of the most liberal recompensation proposals I've heard since the storm.
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Sithen my flesh will be my master I shall punish it; and therewith he rove himself through the thigh that the blood stert about him, and said: O good Lord, take this in recompensation of that I have done against thee, my Lord.
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The workmen who built the plant must be as fully compensated as those who operate it, but being compensated, they have no claim for recompensation for the same work.
Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View Calvin Elliott
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I shall punish it; and therewith he rove himself through the thigh that the blood start about him, and said: O good Lord, take this in recompensation of that I have done against thee, my Lord.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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One of the questions which almost immediately engaged the attention of the leaders of this Church after the Baltimore General Conference was the securing of $288,000 by Agents Barbee and Smith from the Federal Government as a belated recompensation for injury done the Church property of the Church during the Civil War.
The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America: Comprising Its Organization, Subsequent Development and Present Status Charles Henry 1925
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Then Sir Percivale made great sorrow, and drew his sword unto him, saying: Sithen my flesh will be my master I shall punish it; and therewith he rove himself through the thigh that the blood start about him, and said: O good Lord, take this in recompensation of that I have done against thee, my Lord.
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