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Meaning of indemnity | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ɪnˈdɛmnɪti

Definitions

  1. Security from damage, loss, or penalty
  2. Security from damage, loss, or penalty.
    countable, uncountable
  3. Something to make up for loss or damage:amends, compensation, indemnification, offset, quittance, recompense, redress, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, repayment, requital, restitution, satisfaction, setoff.
  4. An obligation or duty upon an individual to incur the losses of another
  5. An obligation or duty upon an individual to incur the losses of another.
    countable, uncountable
  6. indemnización, resarcimiento;___ benefits → beneficios de ___;
  7. Repayment; compensation for loss or injury
  8. Repayment; compensation for loss or injury.
    countable, uncountable
  9. Security against damage, loss, or injury.
  10. The right of an injured party to shift the loss onto the party responsible for the loss
  11. The right of an injured party to shift the loss onto the party responsible for the loss.
    countable, uncountable
  12. An exemption from liability for damages resulting from specified conduct, as in a contract indemnifying a party for the performance of certain actions.
  13. A principle of insurance which provides that when a loss occurs, the insured should be restored to the approximate financial condition occupied before the loss occurred, no better, no worse
  14. A principle of insurance which provides that when a loss occurs, the insured should be restored to the approximate financial condition occupied before the loss occurred, no better, no worse.
    countable, uncountable
  15. Compensation for damage, loss, or injury suffered.
  16. (Insurance) compensation for loss or damage; reimbursement
  17. (Insurance) protection or insurance against future loss or damage
  18. (Law) legal exemption from penalties or liabilities incurred through one's acts or defaults
  19. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in Canada) the salary paid to a member of Parliament or of a legislature
  20. (Parliamentary Procedure) act of indemnity an act of Parliament granting exemption to public officers from technical penalties that they may have been compelled to incur

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: insurance, assurance”
“And all this, it will be said, the Duke of Orleans might have prevented by an effective treaty, securing an act of indemnity.”
“Near-synonyms: liability, responsibility”
“Near-synonyms: reparations, recompense, recompensation; see also Thesaurus:compensation”
“It would have been wise to modify rather than revoke the proclamation. But the Allies went further. Now, for the first time, were heard the words of indemnity for the past, and security for the future.”

CEFR level

C2
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