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Indemnification definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INDEMNIFICA'TION, n. [from indemnify.]
1. The act of indemnifying, saving harmless, or securing against loss, damage or penalty.
2. Security against loss.
3. Reimbursement of loss, damage or penalty.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1732 1. a. the action of indemnifying b. the condition of being indemnified 2. indemnity 2b

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Indemnification is capable of some estimate; dignity has no standard. --Burke. 2. That which indemnifies. No reward with the name of an indemnification. --De Quincey.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Indemnifying, security (against loss, injury, or penalty). 2. Compensation (for loss or injury), remuneration, reimbursement, indemnity, reparation.

Moby Thesaurus

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