Reparations

How it is used

Specify the harm, parties and arrangement; reparations need not take only monetary form.

Example sentences

1. The treaty required reparations in coal as well as money.

   Compensation may be delivered through material transfers.

2. The archive records disputes over how reparations were calculated.

   The amount and basis of compensation can themselves be contested.

Common collocations

• pay reparations
• reparations settlement

Related terms

• treatyA formal written agreement between two or more states, for example to end a war, settle borders or create an alliance.
• world warA war in which most of the world's major powers take part and fighting spreads across several continents; in practice, the wars of 1914–1918 and 1939–1945.

More terms: Wars, Treaties and Diplomacy

• conquest
• armistice
• alliance
• siege
• Cold War
• annex
• campaign
• propaganda
• casus belli
• irredentism
• revanchism
• gunboat diplomacy