compensatory

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The INOC had earlier filed two separate cases relating to the advertisement, one in New Jersey and another in New York, seeking $100 million in actual, compensatory, and punitive damages in addition to costs and disbursements, legal fees and other relief that the court might consider proper.

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  1. Serving to compensate or as compensation; making amends; requiting. Tribute which is not penal nor compensatory. Jer. Taylor, Rule of Conscience, iii. 2. All the compensatory forces of air and water. De Quincey, Herodotus.
  2. compensatory damages in law, damages estimated as an equivalent for the injury, in contradistinction to punitive or vindictive damages, awarded by way of punishment for wilful wrong.

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  • Our greatly expanded set of target predictions, which now include conserved 3'-compensatory sites, are available at the TargetScan web site, which displays the PCT score for each site and each predicted target. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • They are missing their second-rounder but picked up an extra selection at the end of the seventh round as a compensatory pick. —  Kansas City Star: Front Page
  • Sigma Xi shall not be liable for any damages, compensatory or otherwise, based on any cause of action that arises from such personal information being disclosed, provided we acted in good faith and have not willfully disclosed such information with an intent to injure. —  American Scientist Online
  • Mark Driscoll's affected schoolboy masculinity and over-compensatory disdain for "feminization" and "limp wrists" and so forth and so on suggest a man who will never get over the shame of having sucked a cock or two in high school. —  Who Is IOZ?
  • A jury found that the students did not prove they deserved either compensatory or punitive damages.
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  1. from compensate + -ory; = French compensatoire. Cf. compensator.
 

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