Compensation vs Manbote - What's the difference?
compensation | manbote |
The act or principle of compensating.
That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense.
* Hallam
* Burke
The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off.
A recompense or reward for some loss or service.
An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.
(legal, historical, Anglo-Saxon) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant.
As nouns the difference between compensation and manbote
is that compensation is the act or principle of compensating while manbote is (legal|historical|anglo-saxon) a sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant.compensation
English
(wikipedia compensation)Noun
(en noun)- (Emerson)
- The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners.
- No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them.
Synonyms
* (act of compensating) restitution * (recompense or reward) restitutionDerived terms
* overcompensationmanbote
English
Alternative forms
* manbotNoun
(en-noun)- Three weeks later an equal sum, under the name of manbote , was paid to the lord, as a compensation for the loss of his vassal.'' — John Lingard, ''A History of England , 1688.
- If a man was slain a special manbot , or compensation for the loss of a man, had to be paid to the lord side by side with the mægbot to the kin. — NYT, Daily Lexeme:
Maegbot
, 2011 - (quoting H.R. Loyns, 1962)
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