DAMAGES
Dictionary entry overview: What does damages mean?
• DAMAGES (noun)
The noun DAMAGES has 1 sense:
1. a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Familiarity information: DAMAGES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DAMAGES (noun)
Meaning:
A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
amends; damages; indemnification; redress; restitution; indemnity
Hypernyms ("damages" is a kind of...):
compensation (something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "damages"):
relief ((law) redress awarded by a court)
actual damages; compensatory damages; general damages ((law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated)
nominal damages ((law) a trivial sum (usually $1.00) awarded as recognition that a legal injury was sustained (as for technical violations of a contract))
exemplary damages; punitive damages; smart money ((law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct))
atonement; expiation; satisfaction (compensation for a wrong)
