indemnification.

Protection against specified loss or liability, or compensation for such a loss under the relevant arrangement.

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Words that belong together

• contractual indemnification
• indemnification for a loss

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Contractual indemnification applied only to the losses covered by the stated terms.

Indemnification for the loss depended on the required notice and evidence.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: responsibility analysis, evidence qualification, ethical distinction, institutional judgment. Disciplines: academic writing, ethics, legal-administrative reasoning. Commonness: uncommon.