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  • 1Compensation for Disturbance Bill — The Compensation for Disturbance Bill (Ireland 1880), under pressure from John O Connor Power, member for Mayo, was introduced by Ireland s Chief Secretary, W.E. Forster, on June 18, 1880 as a temporary measure to deal with a deteriorating… …

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  • 2compensation — com·pen·sa·tion /ˌkäm pən sā shən/ n 1: the act of compensating 2 in the civil law of Louisiana: the ending of mutual obligations between two people for money or quantities of fungible things usu. by operation of law but sometimes by an agreement …

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  • 3Compensation — • Denotes the price paid for human exertion or labour Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Compensation     Compensation     † …

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  • 4Compensation culture — describes a society in which it is acceptable for anyone who has suffered a personal injury to seek compensatory damages through litigation from someone connected with the injury. The term is especially used to describe the legal climate with… …

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  • 5Compensation (chess) — In chess, compensation refers to various (typically positional) advantages a player has in exchange for a (typically material) disadvantage. The term normally refers to medium to long term advantages as opposed to short term advantages. The terms …

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  • 6compensation — 1. A process in which a tendency for a change in a given direction is counteracted by another change so that the original change is not evident. 2. An unconscious mechanism by which one tries to make up for fancied or real deficiencies. [L. com… …

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  • 7compensation — compensational, adj. /kom peuhn say sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or state of compensating. 2. the state of being compensated. 3. something given or received as an equivalent for services, debt, loss, injury, suffering, lack, etc.; indemnity: The… …

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  • 8For the Boys — Infobox Film name = For the Boys caption = Promotional movie poster for the film director = Mark Rydell producer = Bonnie Bruckheimer writer = Marshall Brickman Neal Jimenez Lindy Laub starring = Bette Midler James Caan George Segal music = Dave… …

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  • 9compensation culture — noun A culture (set of social customs) based on a sense of entitlement to legal compensation for ones own or others mistakes …

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  • 10Compensation — AS law, carried over into the *LHP, contained detailed rules and schedules of compensation for injury, from the loss of a finger nail at 4s, to a thegn s death at 1,200s. If a man was rendered impotent by a wound then 80s were payable, while the… …

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