workmen's compensation

1. 1.

   compensation for death or injury suffered by a worker in the course of his employment

   Broadercompensation

Questions about workmen's compensation

What does workmen's compensation mean?

workmen's compensation means "compensation for death or injury suffered by a worker in the course of his employment".

Is workmen's compensation a common word?

workmen's compensation 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.