workmen's compensation insurance

noun

1. workers' compensation insurance.

Word History and Origins

Origin of workmen's compensation insurance¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

Obligations toward others generally for personal injuries is the basis of liability and workmen's compensation insurance, of which the latter has had an almost mushroom development of late years.

From Project Gutenberg

Like workmen's compensation insurance, the professors' "basic protection plan" permits recovery without proof of fault.

From Time Magazine Archive

Workmen's compensation; insurance, principles and practice. © 25Feb35; A80817.

From Project Gutenberg

To-day the Ohio State Insurance Fund is the largest carrier of workmen's compensation insurance, public or private, in the world.

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