general damages

1. 1.

   (law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated

   Synonymsactual damagescompensatory damages

   Broaderdamages

   law

Questions about general damages

What does general damages mean?

general damages means "(law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated".

What is another word for general damages?

Close synonyms include actual damages, compensatory damages. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is general damages a common word?

general 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.