indemnity
赔偿金,赔偿,赔款,弥偿
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plural in·dem·ni·ties.
- : protection or security against damage or loss.
- : compensation for damage or loss sustained.
- : something paid by way of such compensation.
- : protection, as by insurance, from liabilities or penalties incurred by one's actions.
- : legal exemption from penalties attaching to unconstitutional or illegal actions, granted to public officers and other persons.
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In 1825, France forced Haiti to pay a substantial indemnity for “property lost” during the Haitian Revolution, including the value of the workers who had freed themselves from slavery.
Hoping to improve relations between the two countries, the US government decided to return almost half the American portion of the indemnity China had agreed to pay in the Boxer Protocol.
There, in his empty office, he tells his story to a Dictaphone (channeling Double Indemnity) of how he became “Devin Morehouse.”
A more carefully worded legal indemnity would stop that happening.
The expatriated ex-rebels became alarmed by the non-receipt of the indemnity instalment and the news from their homes.
In due course indemnity claims were forwarded to the military authorities, who rejected them all.
The French war indemnity enabled him to redeem a considerable portion of the state debt and to remit certain taxes.
Before he left Canada he proclaimed the act of indemnity, and notified her majesty's disallowance of the ordinance.
In reality the dissenters suffered very little from these acts, for they were relieved by annual acts of indemnity.