English Dictionary

conscience money

名詞

慣用表現 不可算名詞

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

日本語の意味

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。

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

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。

意味（1）

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

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.