Thesaurus / indemnity
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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.
STEREOTYPES ABOUT HAITI ERASE THE LONG HISTORY OF U.S.-HAITI TIESROBERT TABERJULY 8, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHoping 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.
CHINA’S PATH TO MODERNIZATION HAS, FOR CENTURIES, GONE THROUGH MY HOMETOWNYANGYANG CHENGJUNE 30, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWThe expatriated ex-rebels became alarmed by the non-receipt of the indemnity instalment and the news from their homes.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANIn due course indemnity claims were forwarded to the military authorities, who rejected them all.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANThe French war indemnity enabled him to redeem a considerable portion of the state debt and to remit certain taxes.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 5, SLICE 2VARIOUSBefore he left Canada he proclaimed the act of indemnity, and notified her majesty's disallowance of the ordinance.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL.III.E. FARR AND E. H. NOLANIn reality the dissenters suffered very little from these acts, for they were relieved by annual acts of indemnity.
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND - VOL. X.WILLIAM HUNTThat was to be his indemnity; the emperor was to be gratified by being allowed to exchange the Netherlands for Bavaria.
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND - VOL. X.WILLIAM HUNTIndeed the waiter readily took this view of the matter, and was quite satisfied with five francs as an indemnity.
THE ANIMAL STORY BOOKVARIOUSOn 24th November the treaty was signed, an indemnity being paid by the city, but the rioting did not cease.
FLORENCE AND NORTHERN TUSCANY WITH GENOAEDWARD HUTTONWORDS RELATED TO INDEMNITY
- advantage
- allowance
- amends
- atonement
- benefit
- bonus
- bread
- consideration
- counterclaim
- coverage
- damages
- defrayal
- deserts
- earnings
- fee
- gain
- honorarium
- indemnity
- meet
- offset
- pay
- payment
- payoff
- premium
- profit
- quittance
- reciprocity
- reckoning
- recompense
- recoupment
- redress
- reimbursement
- remittal
- remittance
- remuneration
- reparation
- repayment
- reprisal
- requital
- restitution
- reward
- salary
- salt
- satisfaction
- scale
- setoff
- settlement
- shake
- stipend
- take
- take-home
- wage
- allowance
- bacon
- bread
- commission
- compensation
- consideration
- defrayment
- emoluments
- fee
- hire
- honorarium
- income
- indemnity
- meed
- payment
- perquisite
- pittance
- proceeds
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- reckoning
- recompensation
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- redress
- reimbursement
- remuneration
- reparation
- requital
- return
- reward
- salary
- satisfaction
- scale
- settlement
- stipend
- stipendium
- take-home
- takings
- wage
- wages
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