indemnifying

verb

present participle of indemnify
as in compensating
to provide (someone) with a just payment for loss or injury the company generously indemnifies workers who are injured on the job

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Recent Examples of indemnifying As a result, the 18-time major champion and golf's most iconic figure was awarded $50 million by a Florida jury on Monday, effectively indemnifying him for the damages caused to his reputation. — Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indemnifying
  1. compensating
  2. reimbursing
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  • For decades, the system has demanded toughness in exactly the wrong places, tolerating dysfunctional technology, absorbing endless documentation, and compensating for broken workflows.
    — Frantz M. Berthaud, STAT, 7 July 2026
  • The most obvious concession is compensating Cubans and Americans whose assets were confiscated during the revolution.
    — Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 6 July 2026
Definition of compensating
Verb
  • For payers, prevention cannot stop at reimbursing screenings.
    — Felicity Yost, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • Los Angeles officials have reached a tentative agreement with organizers of the 2028 Olympic Games laying out the process for reimbursing the city for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in public services.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2026
Definition of reimbursing

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