What's the difference between indemnify and recompense?

Indemnify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure.
  • (v. t.) To make restitution or compensation for, as for that which is lost; to make whole; to reimburse; to compensate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The evaluation, in relation to the different indemnifying, is differentiated.
  • (2) Prosecutor Andrew Edis said it was still not clear if Coulson's costs would be indemnified against costs.
  • (3) The company chosen to do the hauling should be able to demonstrate that they have appropriate insurance to indemnify your office in the event of a problem while they have the waste in their possession.
  • (4) Meanwhile analysts think that Google, which writes the Android mobile software used by Samsung and dozens of others, may have to indemnify handset makers against such lawsuits.
  • (5) This emotional reward indemnifies the future of private practice, because it can exist only in the presence of a close patient-physician relationship, which is the cornerstone of the private practice of ophthalmology.
  • (6) The lawyers said that baseball also promised to provide security for Bosch, cover his legal bills and indemnify him from civil liability over the case.
  • (7) Stuart Kuttner, former managing editor of the News of the World, is seeking £135,000 of costs incurred before News UK indemnified him in January last year.
  • (8) Instead, officials with knowledge of the rendition operations stressed that they were "ministerially authorised government policy", suggesting that any intelligence officers involved were indemnified against prosecution or civil proceedings in the UK when an authorisation was signed by a government minister under section seven of the Intelligence Services Act – a clause described by some MPs as "a licence to kill".
  • (9) She dropped the claim after News UK – the News Corp subsidiary that under a previous guise as News International published the now-defunct News of the World – which was indemnifying her costs, said it would not be seeking to be reimbursed following her acquittal on all charges.
  • (10) One idea is that rights holders might look to indemnify ISPs against being sued by websites that take action over being blocked in order to give confidence that they will not face large payouts.
  • (11) The league said that Shelly Sterling and the Sterling family trust also "agreed not to sue the NBA and to indemnify the NBA against lawsuits from others, including Donald Sterling”.
  • (12) Although they will often be entitled to be indemnified out of the assets of the charity, the indemnity will be worthless if the charity is impecunious.
  • (13) But liabilities keep mounting in the company's core casualty business, which indemnifies individuals and companies against damage to themselves and their properties.
  • (14) It also favours an Ofcom-style regulator for supermarkets to address day-to-day abuses of power towards consumers and suppliers, and for government to indemnify councils against legal costs of supermarket planning disputes.
  • (15) Although the nurse has admitted being in breach of her duty, she claims the company should have indemnified her.
  • (16) The act could also indemnify companies acting for security purposes from civil and criminal liability, including violating a user's privacy, provided these were not intentional, the group warned.
  • (17) The publisher’s decision also means other cleared defendants in the trial who were indemnified by News UK have dropped their cost claims.
  • (18) The government will indemnify the private contractors, which means the taxpayer will be left to foot the bill for any leak, a similar arrangement to how things stand now.
  • (19) After having reviewed all the 22 patients in Belgium who are indemnified for isocyanate occupational asthma, the authors cannot find any significant factor that would permit screening and previous eviction (atopy, smoking habits).
  • (20) An insurance policy, at small cost, might be offered to indemnify couples against costs of abortion, tubal division, or maternity care the operation had failed or not.

Recompense


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.
  • (v. t.) To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for.
  • (v. t.) To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
  • (v. i.) To give recompense; to make amends or requital.
  • (n.) An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He had raised the possibility of calling witnesses to testify "if it really is the case that legitimate lobbyists could be paid 30% of the value of a $40m contract simply as recompense for their time and trouble".
  • (2) In 1952-61 44 cases of lung cancer were reported in conjunction with radioactive substances, in 1962-85 already 1511 patients were recompensated.
  • (3) Coagulation-analysis control of the development shows clearly that shock treatment and maintenance of adequate circulation, starting at the earliest possible moment at the scene of the accident, are important for spontaneous recompensation of the hemostatic defect.
  • (4) Key findings included the following: 1) for a least 40% of outpatient schizophrenics, drugs seem to be essential for survival in the community; 2) the majority of patients who relapse after drug withdrawal recompensate fairly rapidly upon reinstitution of antipsychotic drug therapy; 3) placebo survivors seem to function as well as drug survivors--thus the benefit of maintenance drug therapy appears to be prevention of relapse; and 4) some cases of early relapse after drug withdrawal may be due to dyskinesia rather than psychotic decompensation.
  • (5) Doctors were happy with the deal, seeing a pay freeze as adequate recompense for the government backing away from patient choice.
  • (6) Preliminary loop cutaneous ureterostomy diversion allowed adequate ureteral recompensation such that ureteral tapering was unnecessary in any of these cases.
  • (7) The international community agreed to examine options for a mechanism for poor countries to seek recompense.
  • (8) Whichever way the matter is eventually settled, Johnson feels those involved in the England 2018 campaign are in effect fraud victims and should be recompensed for what has proved a considerable waste of time and money, effort and energy.
  • (9) It’s not just recompense for Benn’s historic defeat, but one better.
  • (10) Coad, representing Edmonds, said: “Noel has waited 10 years to see justice done after his business empire was brought down by Mr Dobson’s fraud, and if the Lloyds review process does not provide the recompense due to Noel, then all the necessary ordinance, including litigation funding, is in place to start legal proceedings.” Lloyds said the £100m compensation pot could be increased if necessary.
  • (11) A spokesman for the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS foundation trust said: “During the same period, NHS activity at the trust has increased by 25%; but this has been insufficiently funded under the current NHS tariff system, which is widely recognised as not recompensing highly complex work.
  • (12) It was agreed that the Obama administration would pay Tehran $1.7bn to recompense Iran for an aborted arms deal drawn up before the 1979 Islamic revolution.
  • (13) Recompensation, possibly through the use of another person as a transitional object, was noted during the illness.
  • (14) While this principle – that victims can seek recompense from those who have harmed them — is central to the law of most countries, it remains a politically contentious topic in the international context of climate change.
  • (15) I didn't buy the State of Israel being the recompense for the murder of European Jewry, recompense not being quite the right word, of course.
  • (16) This paper discusses the application of basic theories of family functioning to understanding the syndrome consisting of abnormal-illness behaviour centred around a recompensable illness or injury.
  • (17) A report is given on a patient with ischaemic heart disease, whose recompensation in tachyarrhythmia absoluta was for some times possible only by means of unusually high doses of digitoxin (fully effective dose to 5.72 mg, maintenance dose to 0.4 mg).
  • (18) China agreed to waive all claims for compensation - instead of haggling over its population's right for recompense, Beijing settled for new bridges, dams and airports.
  • (19) The Guardian columnist George Monbiot has reached what he called an "unprecedented" libel settlement with Lord McAlpine , pledging to carry out three years of charity work as recompense for Twitter messages that wrongly linked the former Conservative chairman with an allegation of child sex abuse.
  • (20) "Good conduct" showed a slight decrease as the challenging character of recompense grew smaller, but was still above the initial level.