| 单词 | indirect damages |
| 释义 | > as lemmasindirect damages a. Not directly aimed at or attained; not immediately resulting from an action or cause. indirect damages: (see quot. 1880). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [adjective] > consequential or indirect oblique1528 consequential1627 deductory1655 indirect1823 spillover1953 ripple-through1962 1823 W. Scott Peveril IV. iv. 88 He is one who will neither seek an indirect advantage by a specious road, or take an evil path to gain a real good purpose. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 95 He could not bring himself to sacrifice..his salary of eight thousand pounds a year, and the far larger indirect emoluments of his office. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 8 Happiness is not the direct aim, but the indirect consequence of the good government. 1880 T. E. Holland Elem. Jurispr. xiii. 220 ‘Direct’, or ‘general’, damages are those which are the necessary and immediate consequence of the wrong, while ‘indirect’, or ‘special’, damages are sometimes granted in respect of its remoter consequences. < as lemmas |
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