賠償金(ばいしょうきん)

ばいしょうきん
noun
compensation; damages; reparations
formallegallawmoney
1. compensation (money); damages; reparations
Money paid to make up for damage, injury or loss that one has caused, whether ordered by a court, agreed in a settlement, or paid by one country to another after a war.
賠償金(ばいしょうきん)を払(はら)う。
To pay compensation.
会社(かいしゃ)に賠償金(ばいしょうきん)を請求(せいきゅう)した。
They claimed damages from the company.
裁判所(さいばんしょ)は被告(ひこく)に三百万円(さんびゃくまんえん)の賠償金(ばいしょうきん)の支払(しはら)いを命(めい)じた。
The court ordered the defendant to pay three million yen in damages.

賠償(ばいしょう) (compensation for damage) + 金(きん) (money). Used in law, insurance and diplomacy; after a war, the word means reparations paid by the losing country.

Common collocations

Similar words

  • 慰謝料(いしゃりょう): compensation for emotional suffering (divorce, defamation)
  • 補償金(ほしょうきん): compensation for a loss that is nobody's fault, such as land taken for public works

Related Words

Compare: 慰謝料(いしゃりょう) (compensation for emotional suffering)
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Added 2026.10.8 9:21 · Revised 2026.10.8 9:24
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