workmen's compensation
- noun
- /ˈwɜrkˌmɛn z ˌkɒmpənˈseɪʃən/
- UK
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indemnización laboral
- The company provides workmen's compensation to ensure workers are compensated for injuries sustained on the job.
Examples
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Her family was eligible for workmen's compensation after the tragic workplace accident that led to his death.
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No insurance for the loss of the arm, no workmen's compensation, though now and again the first Mrs. Ballard, driven by Black Amos in the LaSalle, stopped out front and honked for Leland's mother to walk to the car and accept a few dollars' worth of store scrip from her gloved white hand...
Fiction book (1992) -
After the accident, he received workmen's compensation to help cover his medical expenses.
Synonyms
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3.6
Money given to pay someone for work and to make up for loss or injury
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7.7
Money given to make up for loss, harm, or effort
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8.8
Money that a person receives for loss, damage, or injury
Money that an employer or the government pays after you are hurt
Surface Forms
Morphology
workmen's + compensation
The phrase is transparently compositional: 'workmen's' = workers' and 'compensation' = payment, so it denotes payment made to workers in connection with workplace injury or loss. Although legal specifics and eligibility rules are not inferable without context, the core meaning (payment to a worker for a work-related injury) follows directly from the constituents and is cross-linguistically common.
Etymology
Workmen's compensation comes from old laws that said if a workman was hurt at work the employer must give compensation, a 'payment' to make up for the injury. So today it means money paid to a worker or their family after a job accident.