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(idiomatic) Money which is voluntarily paid by a party who feels guilt, and seeks to provide compensation, for some past misdeed or negligence.

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conscience money

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Source Word

conscience money

idiomatic uncountable

Japanese Meaning

過去の不祥事や怠慢に対して、罪悪感によって自発的に支払われる金銭。 / 自己の過去の非を償うために、心の呵責から自主的に提供される賠償金。

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After the leak, the company quietly set aside conscience money to compensate the affected families and ease its guilt.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

流出事故の後、その会社は被害を受けた家族に補償するため、罪悪感から自発的に支払う補償金をひそかに確保し、自らの後ろめたさを和らげようとした。

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The Secretary of the Treasury is almost daily in receipt of installments of conscience-money, which the perturbed moral sense of a guilty office-holder or other defrauder of the government suggests the payment of in order to obtain "a still and quiet conscience."

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