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    workmen's compensation
    noun
    compensation for death, injury, or accident suffered by a workman in the course of his employment and paid to him or his dependents
  • Workmen's Compensation
    Workmen's Compensation
    A state insurance program that provides money for workers injured on the job and for the dependents of workers killed on the job.
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workmen's compensation

British  

noun

  1. compensation for death, injury, or accident suffered by a workman in the course of his employment and paid to him or his dependents

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Workmen's Compensation Cultural  
  1. A state insurance program that provides money for workers injured on the job and for the dependents of workers killed on the job.


Example Sentences

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The following year, Campbell unsuccessfully tried to allow police dispatchers to claim hypertension or heart disease as occupational diseases eligible for workmen’s compensation.

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2022

“They wanted to keep them on the job until retirement to preclude the high cost of workmen’s compensation payouts and didn’t tell them.”

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2022

Workers who get sick on the job might not be able to sue their employers, but would have access to workmen’s compensation to cover lost wages and medical care, legal experts said.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 15, 2020

This was the movement for compulsory health insurance, which overlapped with the public health movement, but was more in the spirit of some of the Progressive Era reforms that were successful, like workmen’s compensation.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2020

How statistics may be effectively embodied in an interview is demonstrated by the following excerpt from a special feature story on a workmen's compensation law administered by a state industrial board: Judge J.B.

From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor

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