treble damages

1. 1.

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

   Broaderpunitive damages

Questions about treble damages

What does treble damages mean?

treble damages means "three times the amount that a court would normally find the injured party entitled to".

Is treble damages a common word?

treble 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.