just compensation

collocation in English

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just
adjective
uk
/dʒʌst/us
/dʒʌst/
fair; ...
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compensation
noun
uk
/ˌkɒm.penˈseɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌkɑːm.penˈseɪ.ʃən/
money that is paid to someone in exchange for something that has been lost or damaged or for ...
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(Definition ofjustandcompensationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But it does not follow that rules of reason determine in any precise way what counts asjustcompensation.
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There is certainly a creativity interest injustcompensationfor expropriated property.
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Where the owner's interest is simply in maintaining capital of a certain value, replacement of the property withjustcompensationmay not seriously affect her reliability interest.
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Many more, young people as well as older victims, have scant hope of living to see a court settlement of their claims tojustcompensation.
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No effort has been made for injured workers of the pre-1948 era to secure for themjustcompensationfor loss of faculty.
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It provides for a fair andjustcompensationaward that recognises not only salary but the additional benefits.
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While we are all anxious that no undue amount should be given, we desire that fair andjustcompensationshould be paid.
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We shall probably be able to provide the miners who own their small homes with some form ofjustcompensation.
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He said it was intended to givejustcompensationat the time when property was taken over.
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One day we shall have to recast our ideas about what is fair andjustcompensationfor workers who suffer from these respiratory diseases.
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I suggest that the aim must bejustcompensation.
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Everyone knows how hard the miners had to fight to getjustcompensationfor contracting that terrible disease.
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He shows great warmth when asking for fair andjustcompensation.
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It is notjustcompensationfor loss of their assets or goodwill—whatever may be left of that—or an effort to save their private fortunes.
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What is at stake is notjustcompensationfor the quarrymen themselves; there is a fundamental question of compensation for the widows.
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I say that the way in which he was dismissed entitles him to reasonable andjustcompensation.
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Many of the claimants are poor and seekingjustcompensation.
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It is notjustcompensationfor coalminers that we are discussing.
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I would say that it is perhaps time that there was some constitutional guarantee against property being taken for public use withoutjustcompensation.
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