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aggravated damages

noun

C1CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

Enhanced compensation reflecting the injury to the claimant's feelings caused by the defendant's malicious or high-handed conduct.

His sneering conduct in the witness box justified aggravated damages on top of the basic award.

Similar: enhanced compensatory damages

Topic: Tort in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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