double damages

1. 1.

   twice the amount that a court would normally find the injured party entitled to

   Broaderpunitive damages

Questions about double damages

What does double damages mean?

double damages means "twice the amount that a court would normally find the injured party entitled to".

Is double damages a common word?

double damages is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.