WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does workmen's compensation mean? 

• WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (noun)
  The noun WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION has 1 sense:

1. compensation for death or injury suffered by a worker in the course of his employment

  Familiarity information: WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Compensation for death or injury suffered by a worker in the course of his employment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("workmen's compensation" is a kind of...):

compensation (something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury))